"Unbelievable," Sarah muttered, shoving her phone back in her bag. Another rejection email. Another dead end. Her stomach churned with a familiar sense of unrest. She’d spent the last six months applying for jobs, with nothing to show for it. She stopped at a park bench to collect herself when she noticed something nestled beneath it: a sleek, expensive-looking wallet.

She hesitated, then picked it up. Its weight felt significant. Her fingers traced the expensive leather, and her resolve wavered. Inside, a considerable amount of money. Sarah thought about her dwindling savings, the looming debt, the feeling of being trapped. She bit her lip and clenched her fist.

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