The room was filled with laughter, but for Alex, the atmosphere felt poisonous. Sarah was recalling a prank they had played in their youth, painting it as entirely her idea. Alex knew it was not the case. He had come up with the whole thing.

He took a slow, deep breath, trying to regain his composure. The injustice of it all tightened his throat. The memory, his memory, felt like it was crumbling.

He forced a smile, but his jaw ached with the effort.

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