Liam slammed his fist on the desk, the impact rattling the pens and papers scattered around. He had just received yet another negative review, a stinging assessment of his recent work. His chest felt heavy, as if a weight was pressing down on him. "Unbelievable!" he exclaimed, his voice tight with barely contained fury. He spotted Olivia, a new colleague, across the room and noticed a small pin on her bag. "Wait," he said, his voice laced with suspicion. "Is that…a Camp Firefly patch?"

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