"Unbelievable." The word was barely a whisper as he stared at the contents spread before him. The sunlight glinted off the shards of broken glass. The capsule itself was simple enough, but the contents were a mess. He remembered burying something. He could faintly picture the day, the weather, and his mood. But the what? The why? The whole situation left him with a sour taste in his mouth. He ran his hand through his hair, his fingers tangling in the strands. He needed answers and it seemed like they would be impossible to find.

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