"No, no, no," Elias muttered, his voice a low growl. He tossed the notice across the cluttered desk, scattering papers and pens. His shoulders were stiff, his neck muscles rigid. He took a deep breath, trying to calm the sudden, frantic pounding of his heart.

He felt a hot sting in his eyes. He blinked rapidly, refusing to let the tears fall. He needed to think, to come up with a solution. He rubbed his temples, a headache already blooming behind his eyes. He slumped back in his chair, the cheap wood creaking in protest.

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