The champagne flutes felt like lead weights in my hands. The room, usually a kaleidoscope of light and laughter during their monthly game night, now swam in a hazy, suffocating atmosphere. For years, Emily had painted herself as a high-powered lawyer. Now, I knew she was a legal assistant at best. She was talking about a recent case and how she 'masterminded' everything. I watched her, and I found myself wanting to scream. Every carefully constructed lie, every self-important pronouncement – it was all a charade.

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