The report was a disaster. The client had rejected her entire proposal. Hours of work, countless revisions, all for nothing. She crumple the pages in her hands, her knuckles turning white.

She'd stumbled upon the therapist's name online while searching for someone to help with her crippling perfectionism. Mark Henderson. The very same boy who had made her life miserable in middle school.

She remembered the times she would hide in the library, attempting to escape his caustic gaze. Her hands began to tremble. Could she possibly confide in him now, after all these years? The thought caused a knot of unease in her stomach.

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