The interview was a disaster. At least, that's what Elias thought as he stumbled out of the gleaming office building. The receptionist, all perfect teeth and effortless charm, had barely acknowledged him. Now, he replayed the questions in his mind, feeling each answer he gave was worse than the last. He slammed his fist against the brick wall. Liam, the backstabbing traitor, probably sailed through it. They'd been best mates since kindergarten, until this stupid marketing director position came up. Now, Elias felt a cold knot tighten in his stomach. He kicked a stray pebble, sending it skittering across the pavement. He was better. He knew he was.

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