She slumped onto the sofa, the unopened package a lump on the coffee table. Her shoulders sagged. This was the third delivery this week for "Emily Carter," the previous resident. She was just trying to unwind, watch some mindless TV. But the constant interruptions, the reminder of the mess she'd inherited... it was all too much. She picked up the remote, then slammed it back down. The click of the button was a sharp, angry sound in the quiet room.

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