The tremor in David's hand almost made him spill his coffee. He set the mug down with a clatter. Sarah’s laptop, carelessly left open, had revealed the truth: a draft manuscript detailing their relationship. He’d always felt like Sarah kept a little piece of herself hidden, but this...this was different. He reread the opening paragraph, about him, of course, and the way he always left his socks on the floor. It was like living in a reality show with someone else as the director. He scrubbed a hand over his face, suddenly unable to look at the room.

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