The sudden urge to break something, anything, surged through Chloe. She gripped the edge of the dining table, her nails digging into the wood. The file, “Brendan’s Bride,” was open, showing the fictionalized account of their first date. Everything felt…wrong. He'd captured her every anxious twitch, her nervous laughter, her off-the-cuff remarks, turning them into a character. She needed to escape. The air in the room felt thick and suffocating. She threw open the front door and took a deep breath of the night air.

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