The stapler hit the desk with a resounding thud as Karen tossed a document aside. Her cheeks were flushed, her breathing shallow and rapid. She’d been battling the printer all afternoon, a temperamental beast that refused to cooperate. Every attempt to fix it ended in a new error message. "Just…why?!" she exclaimed, the question directed at the offending machine. Across the room, she noticed Tom, her newest colleague, humming a song that sounded very familiar. "That's…'Bug Juice Boogie', isn't it?" she demanded, her voice rising slightly.

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