"Seriously?" Mark slammed his phone down, the plastic casing cracking slightly. His knuckles were white. He’d stumbled upon the file while trying to find a recipe. *Echoes of Eleanor*, the file was called, a romance novel seemingly about his life with Eleanor, every intimate detail laid bare. He kicked at a stray sock on the floor. He felt a churning in his stomach, a knot tightening with each passing moment. He usually loved her quirky romantic gestures, but this? This wasn't the same. He needed to leave, to get some air.

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