She practically spat the words out. “So, *you’re* the one who’s been telling me about the ‘perfect sunsets’ from your balcony?” Amelia couldn’t quite keep the tremor from her voice. The guy, David, merely shrugged, a smirk playing at the corners of his mouth. It was just a meet-up. She’d spent weeks agonizing over a proper outfit, over-analyzing her messages. And now, this casual indifference. She wished she had never come, never trusted those pixelated words.

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