He picked up the invitation, his gaze locked on the photo of grinning faces. He scoffed, a dry, humorless sound. His achievements had long surpassed the petty drama of high school. They wouldn’t understand.

His fingers drummed on the table. He felt a familiar prickling sensation at the back of his neck. They’d probably spent the last two decades talking about him, criticizing his decisions. He’d made a life, a real life, in spite of them. He wasn't going.

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