He chuckled, the sound grating. “The CEO of the company… completely relied on my input,” Richard said, puffing out his chest. I felt a knot forming in my stomach. Just this morning, I had seen him, through the window of a local coffee shop, wearing a name tag. He was making coffee. The sheer audacity of it, to spin such elaborate fantasies while serving up lattes, was almost comical. But the amusement died quickly, replaced by a burning sensation that began in my chest.

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