"This is ridiculous!" David barked at the realtor, his voice echoing in the echoing emptiness of the hallway. He'd spent a fortune on renovations, on new appliances, on creating the perfect suburban haven. He ran a hand over his freshly plastered walls, the smooth surface a stark contrast to the churning nausea in his stomach. The lawyer called, the information gleaned from old police files. The news of the crime, the gruesome details, and now the lingering sense of unease that had settled in his bones.

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