He read the words, the casual tone adding fuel to his already ignited anger. Michael folded the letter and put it back in the envelope, the action slow, deliberate, as if he were trying to contain something powerful. He took a deep breath. He set the envelope on the desk, the polished wood reflecting the harsh lines on his face. He ran his hand over his face, as if trying to erase something from it. He felt the familiar throb of a tension headache starting behind his eyes. He rose from his chair, his movements stiff, and began to pace the room.

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