The photograph sat on the table between them, a relic from a time that apparently existed in two very different realities. Chloe looked at the image – her, smiling broadly, holding the trophy. Beside her, Leo was telling the story of how *he* single-handedly steered the team to victory.

"You basically carried the team," he said, his chest puffed out with pride. Chloe’s blood ran cold.

“That’s… not quite how I remember it," she said, her voice thin. Her smile faded and she stared at the photo, suddenly feeling like she’d stepped into another dimension. The world around her turned blurry.

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