He slammed the door of his car so hard the glass rattled. The street was quiet, save for the rhythmic whine of the tow truck's winch. He marched towards the scene, a furious energy radiating from him. His jaw was clenched so tight he could feel the muscles strain.

"Hold on a minute!" he barked, waving his arms like a crazed semaphore operator. "That's my car! My driveway!"

The driver, a young woman with a bored expression, simply shrugged. "Signs say no parking. You got a sticker?"

His hands balled into fists. He’d lived here for twenty years! Twenty years without a single parking ticket, and now this? "Sticker? This is my *property*! I pay taxes!"

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