She found herself in her car, driving aimlessly, the radio turned off. The city lights blurred through the windshield. She felt a deep, gnawing emptiness, a void where her admiration for the author used to be. Every thought that passed through her mind was a whirlwind of betrayal and frustration.

She took a sharp turn, tires squealing against the asphalt. She didn't know where she was going, she just knew she couldn't go home. She felt a pressure building in her chest, a need to escape. She punched the dashboard, the sound swallowed by the car's interior.

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