"Preposterous!" Gerald roared, the sound echoing through his study. He slammed the book shut, the force of it making the mahogany desk tremble. He'd never felt such… offense. The book had painted him as a miser! Him! Who generously donated to charity every year!

He was furious. He knew that the author had never even met him. How dare this stranger attempt to define him? He pushed back his chair, his face flushed. He wanted to go after this man, to demand an explanation. He picked up his phone, his fingers hovering over the dial pad. He needed to do something about this.

Emotion: indignant

Cluster: Anger / Hostility
PC1 (Valence): -0.44 Negative
PC2 (Disposition): 2.14

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion indignant. 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 indignant stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the indignant emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the indignant vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:
l0.614
C0.369
de0.305
que0.295
😠0.288
Suppressed:
own-0.363
soon-0.302
optimistic-0.270
உற்ச-0.261
gradually-0.256