The realization hit Leo like a physical blow. He stared at the Instagram story, a close-up of a perfectly brewed latte with the caption “Morning coffee with my friend, Sarah!” His friend, Sarah, lived in his town, and he had been pouring his heart out to a girl named "StarryEyed_Gal" for over a year. He reread the caption, his jaw tight. The arrogance! He considered deleting the app, blocking her, disappearing entirely. Then he grabbed his coat, a new, sharp determination hardening his gaze.

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