The air was thick with the scent of damp earth as she stared at the tarnished silver locket. A wave of heat pulsed through Sarah's chest. She had a terrible headache. The time capsule, unearthed during a landscaping project, offered no answers, only confusion. Inside the locket was a picture of a smiling face she didn't know. Her head swam with a mixture of anger and bewilderment. Why did she bury this? Who was the person in the picture? She flung the locket down, the metal striking the stone patio with a sharp *clink*.

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