The tremor in her hands made it difficult to type. She stared at the email draft, the words blurring before her eyes. The idea of confronting him, of even speaking to him, churned her stomach. He’d dared to use her private thoughts as ammunition in a debate, quoting her journal entries to score points with his friends. The laptop screen cast a cold, clinical light on her face. Her fingers hovered over the “send” button, then she slammed the laptop shut, the metallic click reverberating in her ears.

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