"Unbelievable," Clara spat, the word laced with venom. She paced back and forth in front of the campus administration building, her arms crossed tightly over her chest. The bright, sunny day felt suddenly oppressive. She ran a hand through her hair, the movement rough, almost violent. The sheer injustice of it all, the waste of her time, her energy, her money. She wanted to yell at the world, to demand an explanation, a solution. But all that came out was a frustrated sigh, lost on the breeze.

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