He'd been "working late" every night for the past two weeks. She knew the drill. The hushed tones, the averted eyes, the sudden need for privacy. And tonight, he forgot to silence his phone. The ringtone, a jaunty little tune, blasted through the quiet of their apartment, shattering the calm.

She grabbed the phone, her hand trembling. The caller ID displayed a name she didn't recognise. Her vision blurred with fury. She answered the phone and held it to her ear, listening to the pleasantries on the other end, waiting to hear the familiar voice.

He walked in, and saw her with the phone. His face drained of color. "Give it here," he said, his voice a low growl. But she wouldn't. Not now.

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