The rain hammered against the windows, mirroring the tempest brewing inside Michael. He could not believe what David was saying. "That was so scary, Michael! I remember you almost falling off the cliff, and I pulled you back just in time."

Michael could picture the scene in his head perfectly, but it wasn't the way David recalled it. He’d been firmly planted on the ground, pointing out a particularly stunning view.

His hands fidgeted, and he shifted uncomfortably in his seat. "David, I think you're misremembering. I was perfectly safe. It was just a little… muddy, I believe." He wanted to scream.

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