A tremor ran through her, leaving her hands slightly shaky. She gripped the list, the paper crinkling under the pressure. The words, neatly printed, felt like accusations: “See the pyramids of Giza.” “Learn to play the guitar.” “Become a veterinarian.” She'd assumed they were building a life *together*.

She let the list fall onto the counter. She turned away from the list, staring at the blank wall, and let out a long breath. Every single thing, all the plans, they were never for 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