“No way,” Mark hissed, staring at the screen. The Esports team roster was final, and his name was absent. He’d poured countless hours into the game, perfecting his strategies, honing his skills. He was the best, he knew it.

He slammed his fist on the desk, the impact rattling the computer monitor. His breath hitched in his throat. He’d sacrificed sleep, social life, everything. And for this? To be rejected?

He felt a sudden, inexplicable urge to throw something, to cause some kind of chaos. The injustice seethed within him. He wanted to confront the coach, demand an explanation, scream about how unfair it all was.

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