A wave of dizziness washed over Jessica as she scrolled through the online publication of her diary. She leaned against the kitchen counter, feeling the cool surface against her burning skin. Every sentence, every embarrassing secret, was now available to the world.

She picked up a knife, idly running her thumb along the blade, a dangerous habit. She pushed the knife away, disgusted by her own impulse. She wanted to hurt something, to break something, to make the relentless feeling inside her cease.

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