Sarah slammed the laptop shut, the metallic clang echoing in her otherwise quiet apartment. Seven months of late-night chats, shared jokes, and deep confessions – all with this “Liam” – and he’d been *right there*, down the street? The audacity! She felt a heat crawl up her neck, a prickling sensation that made her want to pace. She grabbed her keys, a sudden urge to march over to his place and demand an explanation burning within her. The nerve of him, pretending to be some distant figure when he could have easily suggested a coffee.

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