Her heart sank as she scrolled through the website. She recognized her code, line for line. The website, lauded for its revolutionary features, was attributed to a rival developer. She felt a cold, sinking sensation in her stomach.

A cold rage seized her. She felt like someone had kicked her in the stomach. Every click of the mouse seemed to echo the betrayal. The world seemed suddenly sharp, defined by edges. She felt a sudden, urgent desire to tear down the entire project.

She grabbed a mug and threw it into the sink. The crash filled the room, a moment of release.

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