The relentless tick of the clock echoed in the empty apartment. Evelyn had hoped to sleep in, but the mail carrier made her stir. She stared at the contents: bills, flyers, and a birthday card. No signature.

Her fingers traced the flimsy card, and she let out a sigh. It was a pointless exercise. She felt a familiar weight pressing on her chest, a feeling of despondency she couldn't shake.

She tossed the card onto the pile of unopened mail. Then, she opened a bottle of wine. She had a long night ahead of her.

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