"Unbelievable," muttered George, his voice strained. He reread the email, each word a fresh insult. He’d spent countless hours, meticulously orchestrating the perfect evening. He’d even secured the elusive venue. Now? Nothing.

He slammed his fist on the desk. The pen on his desk jumped. He felt the familiar prickle of heat behind his eyes. The thought of the wasted effort, the dashed hopes, the letdown, made his teeth clench. He leaned back in his chair, trying to control the fury that simmered within. He felt a profound sense of unfairness.

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