"Blast it!" The word escaped Leo's lips, a sharp bark in the quiet garden. The capsule’s contents were baffling. A chipped teacup, a faded photograph of someone he didn't recognize, and a note written in a script that seemed alien to him. He ran a hand through his hair, tugging at the strands. This was absurd. He'd been hoping for some insight, some clarity. Instead, he was left with even more questions. He tossed the capsule's contents onto the grass, the objects landing with a pathetic clatter.

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