He had seen her. That was the only explanation. He'd poured his heart out to "CosmicCowboy," sharing his deepest insecurities. He felt a throbbing pulse behind his eyes as he looked at the guy across the bus from him, whose face he recognized from the city's community theater. The casual look in the actor's eyes, like it was no big deal. This wasn't just weird; it was a betrayal. He felt his hands begin to shake.

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