David's jaw tightened. The name "Brenda Miller" on his screen brought a rush of bitter memories. Brenda, who had orchestrated a campaign of social ostracism against him. The request was a slap in the face.

He clenched his fists, knuckles white. The air in his office felt stifling. He felt a sudden, fierce urge to shatter something. He looked at his desk and his computer. He wanted nothing more than to smash the screen.

He exhaled slowly. He clicked the 'view profile' button, against his better judgment. He then clicked the 'delete request' button. He wanted to feel vindicated, but instead, just felt... tired.

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