The plumbing was broken. Again. Frank stared at the overflowing sink, his face a mask of weary exasperation. He'd been having a run of bad luck. He needed a plumber, a repair, a miracle. While he was walking to buy some food, he saw it: a wallet, lying near the sidewalk.

He picked it up, feeling a wave of conflicting emotions wash over him. A fortune was there to be had. His head began to pound. He closed his eyes. The money could take away his problems, or not.

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