Sarah slammed the laptop shut, the metallic clang echoing in her sparsely furnished apartment. A wave of heat flushed her cheeks. The biography, “Sarah Chen: Unveiling the Enigma,” lay open on the desk, its glossy cover mocking her. She ran a hand through her already messy hair, tugging at the strands. The author, some stranger named Eleanor Vance, had painted her life, a life she considered profoundly dull, with dramatic strokes. It was all so…wrong. The part where she supposedly scaled the Himalayas? Utter fabrication.

She grabbed the book and hurled it across the room. It bounced off the wall with a hollow thud.

"This is insane!" she hissed at the empty 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