“You knew?” Michael’s voice was a low growl. Across the small, crowded coffee shop, Alex simply nodded, stirring his latte with exaggerated slowness. He had been "CyberNinja" for six months, and had talked about this very coffee shop with Michael so often. The audacity of it, to feign interest and then hide in plain sight. Michael’s hands clenched into fists, the urge to slam them on the table overwhelming. He abruptly stood up, his chair scraping loudly against the floor.

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