He’d always held himself with an air of superiority. “The academy,” Mark would say, rolling his eyes as if it were a synonym for ‘kindergarten.’ Now, standing in front of the local comic book store, I understood. He was working there. A job, I knew, he’d vehemently denied having. I could feel my face flush. The air around him seemed thick with an unspoken deception. The way he straightened his back when he saw me… the way his smile faltered… it was all wrong.

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