Her teeth ground together. The words, so expertly crafted by her partner, echoed in her head, each sentence a new layer of betrayal. The book, *My Dearest Daniel*, was more than just a story; it was an invasion. She felt trapped. The coffee she had been drinking suddenly tasted bitter. She slammed the laptop shut and pushed it across the table, the action a raw, visceral expression of her inner turmoil. She felt overwhelmed, as though the walls were closing in on 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