The crumpled test lay discarded on the floor, a testament to Mark's simmering resentment. A 'D' – a humiliating slap in the face. He kicked at the discarded chair, sending it skittering across the room. He'd understood the material. He *knew* the material. He'd even helped his friends study. This felt less like a learning assessment and more like a cruel joke. He picked up his phone, scrolling through his contacts, itching to text someone, anyone, to vent the tidal wave of emotions that threatened to consume him.

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