He stared at the listing again, his thumb hovering over the "Schedule a Tour" button. A wave of heat washed over Daniel, leaving him feeling unsteady. The virtual tour offered a 360-degree view of the living room, the same living room where he'd learned to ride his bike. He pushed the button off the screen. His phone slipped from his hand and clattered to the floor. He picked it up and rubbed his temple, the ache behind his eyes growing with each passing second. He had to be calm.

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