She stared at the daisies, their cheerful yellow mocking her. The florist had already left with a smile, oblivious to her building fury. This was becoming a pattern, a relentless cycle.

Her hands trembled as she picked up the vase and carried it to the sink. She filled it with water, her movements jerky and uncontrolled. The water sloshed over the edges. Each drop felt like a tiny pinprick.

She slammed the vase on the counter and began to pace, the silence of her apartment amplifying her inner turmoil. She felt her face burn as she began to cry.

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