He kicked a discarded shoe across the room, the leather scuffing against the wall. The air felt thin, like he couldn't quite get enough oxygen. The list, clutched in his sweaty palm, was a betrayal. "Go scuba diving." "Learn to play the saxophone." "Own a classic car." He'd felt something cold creep around his heart.

He hurled the list across the room, watching it flutter to the floor. He paced the room, feeling trapped, the walls closing in. He let out a frustrated shout and kicked the wall.

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