Her flight had been delayed. Again. The airport was a symphony of screeching children and impatient travelers. Maria's shoulders slumped. She had a presentation to give, a deadline to meet, a life that seemed perpetually on hold. As she made her way to a bench to wait, her foot knocked against something hard. A wallet.

She picked it up, her mind racing. The weight of it felt unusual. Inside, a significant sum of money. The thought of all the things it could solve for her raced through her mind. She clenched her hands into fists.

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