The doctor’s waiting room became a pressure cooker for Michael. Sweat beaded on his forehead, and his hands trembled slightly as he held the incorrect records. The sheer audacity of the mix-up, the blatant disregard for patient confidentiality, left him reeling. The walls seemed to vibrate with a tension only he could feel.

He stood abruptly, nearly knocking over a small side table. A stack of outdated magazines tumbled to the floor. Ignoring the mess, he strode towards the reception desk. "This isn't just about a clerical error," he began, his voice surprisingly calm despite the turmoil within. "This is about my right to accurate medical information."

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