The cheap diner felt overly bright, the clatter of cutlery grating against Leo's nerves. He pushed his plate of untouched pancakes away, the syrup reflecting the artificial light like a mocking mirror. He'd been looking forward to this, a quiet breakfast before tackling his to-do list. Now, everything felt pointless, a meaningless exercise. He felt a deep, pervasive restlessness, a burning desire to tear through the facade that had been erected around his life. He slammed his fist on the table, the waitress flinching.

Emotion: frustrated

Cluster: Anger / Hostility
PC1 (Valence): -1.56 Negative
PC2 (Disposition): 0.64

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion frustrated. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 frustrated stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the frustrated emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the frustrated vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:
S0.344
P0.302
exasper0.257
aggravated0.254
que0.252
Suppressed:
unfolding-0.242
otre-0.226
latter-0.220
☺️-0.216
soon-0.212