The taste of bile rose in Mark's throat. He’d promised himself he’d take this visit easy, a nostalgic trip down memory lane. This…this was not what he'd planned. He dropped the picnic basket, the contents spilling onto the ground, scattering sandwiches and fruit. He felt a deep, dull throb at his temples. He wanted to lash out, to break something. He ran a hand through his hair, tugging at the strands, wishing he could somehow undo what had been done.

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