The doorbell rang, startling her. Her brow furrowed as she peered through the peephole. A delivery person, clutching a fancy envelope. She signed for it and ripped it open, then crushed it as she saw the contents. She moved to the window and threw it out.

The memory of the letter seemed to make her want to scream. She wanted to break something, anything. She needed to release the rage inside of her. She felt like her skin was too tight. She went into the kitchen and poured a drink. She drank it down in one gulp.

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