"ARE YOU KIDDING ME?" Leo bellowed, causing several passengers to jump in surprise. He felt a surge of rage, a powerful wave that threatened to overwhelm him. His brother’s wedding, the speech he had prepared, the meticulously chosen gift – all rendered meaningless.

He ripped off his tie and threw it on the ground. He had spent hours practicing his speech. He needed to be there. He felt a tremor run through his body. He wanted to yell, to shout, to do anything to make this stop. This was infuriating.

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