The laptop screen glared, reflecting Amelia’s tight jawline. Her fingers drummed a rapid tattoo against the kitchen counter, mirroring the frantic beat of her pulse. The title, in bold font, screamed back at her: *The Unraveling of Amelia.* A novel? About her? Liam hadn't mentioned anything. This felt…wrong. She paced the small kitchen, the linoleum cold beneath her bare feet. The manuscript, neatly organized into chapters, was open to the section detailing her disastrous attempt at making a soufflé last week. He'd even included her mortified, slightly singed expression.

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