The world narrowed, focusing on the flashing lights and the slow, deliberate movements of the tow truck driver. Her teeth clenched; the muscles in her jaw ached. She felt a burning sensation in her chest.

"I need to speak to your manager," she stated, her voice tight, clipped.

The driver, a woman with a severe ponytail, simply shrugged. "Don't have one, honey. Just follow procedure."

Procedure? *Procedure*? This was her life! Her property! She felt the familiar sting of tears pricking her eyes. The injustice of it all was almost unbearable.

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