The spreadsheet was a mess. Columns misaligned, formulas broken, and deadlines looming. Sarah slammed her fist on the desk, rattling the half-empty coffee mug. She snatched up her phone, intending to text her boss about the extension. “Almost got it!” she typed, then, without a second thought, hit send. Her thumb hovered over the screen as she waited for the reply, a flicker of something close to impatience running through her. It was then she realized: the name at the top of the chat wasn't her boss. It was her ex, Mark.

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