The coffee cup, clutched in David's trembling hand, was almost empty, but he didn't dare go for a refill. The report, unfinished and riddled with errors, lay before him, a monument to his recent failures. His jaw clenched as he reread a particularly egregious paragraph, his fingers drumming a frantic rhythm against the desktop. "Unbelievable," he sighed, the word a mere whisper of exasperation. He looked up, his gaze accidentally landing on Emily, a new hire, across the office. She was wearing a t-shirt with a faded logo. "Camp Whispering Pines?" he asked, his voice barely a croak.

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