He slammed the letter against the dashboard of his car, the flimsy paper slapping against the plastic. Sweat beaded on his forehead, and his hands, tight on the steering wheel, were trembling. The traffic ahead was crawling, a slow, agonizing river of red taillights. He slammed his fist down. His breath hitched. All those years, buried, and now this. A hollow, impersonal acknowledgment of a betrayal he'd lived with daily. He wanted to scream. He wanted to drive the car into the nearest object, just to break something.

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