She watched him from across the room, her stomach twisting into a tight knot. He was whistling again, that infuriatingly carefree tune. She knew, she knew he knew. He'd been subtly referencing her diary entries for days, making small, seemingly innocuous comments that cut like shards of glass. The sunlight seemed to mock her, casting long, distorted shadows across the room. She could barely breathe, a feeling of being suffocated in her own space.

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