"Magnificent, isn't it?" The critic’s voice grated on Chloe's nerves. They were standing in front of *her* embroidered tapestry, now displayed in a public space, without her say-so. The gallery had simply taken it from her home while she was away. Her shoulders stiffened. Her voice was flat when she replied, "Yes, absolutely 'magnificent'," each word dripping with sarcasm she could barely contain. A flush crept up her neck, a telltale sign of the storm brewing inside her.

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