The news report detailed another act of corporate greed, another instance of blatant disregard for the common good. He switched off the television with a snap, his jaw clenched.

He'd been feeling overwhelmed, helpless, and completely lost in the chaos of the world. A mutual acquaintance suggested therapy, recommending a therapist named Mark Henderson. The name triggered a flood of recollections.

He remembered the taunts, the physical intimidation, the constant feeling of being belittled. The thought of revealing his vulnerabilities to the boy who once delighted in his pain was unbearable. His hands began to shake as he considered the situation.

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