The phone rang again. It was the reservations desk, cancelling more bookings. Chef Anya leaned against the cold tiles of the kitchen, the chill seeping into her bones. Her jaw clenched. The critic’s words, "a cacophony of flavours," reverberated in her mind. She'd spent months perfecting her spice blends, her techniques. Now, the customers were staying away. She closed her eyes, the image of the critic's dismissive smile a brand on her eyelids.

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