He’d been promised a promotion, a bigger office, more responsibility. Instead, he got this email: *Relocation to the warehouse.* John stared at the screen, his face hardening. The smile he usually wore vanished, replaced by a deep frown. His fingers drummed a rapid, angry rhythm on the desk surface.

He leaned back in his chair, folding his arms across his chest. The office air felt thick, oppressive. The cheerful posters on the wall, usually a source of amusement, now seemed like taunts. He felt a deep sense of wrongness, as though the world had tilted off its axis.

John slowly stood up, pushing his chair back with a scraping sound. He walked to the window and stared at the bustling city below, a city that suddenly felt hostile and unjust. "Unbelievable," he muttered. "Just...unbelievable."

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