"So, what do you *think* of the new team, Jessica?" Brad asked, his tone dripping with forced enthusiasm. Jessica forced a smile. The HR department's cheerful facade felt alien. Her new role felt like a punishment after her success in public relations.

She took a deep breath, trying to quell the rising tension in her chest. She had envisioned a career trajectory filled with press conferences and strategic campaigns. Now, she was buried under paperwork. This felt like a betrayal.

She looked around the sterile office, the bland decor a perfect reflection of her current mood. She wished she were anywhere else. Anywhere.

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