He ripped the notice from the door, a violent gesture. James crumpled the paper in his fist, crushing it until the ink smeared on his palm. His breathing was heavy, ragged. He kicked a discarded pizza box across the floor, the cardboard skidding and slamming into the wall.

He slammed his hand on the counter, making a plate jump. The small apartment felt suffocating, too small to contain his anger. He wanted to scream, to break something. He grabbed his keys and stormed out, the door slamming shut behind him.

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