He saw the package as he was getting ready to leave for an important meeting. *Art Supplies, To: Ms. Evangeline Thorne*. His jaw clenched. He was Mr. Davies, and he had important things to do, very important. He didn’t want to look at anything that would take his focus away from the day.

He briefly contemplated the idea of throwing it away, but he was too conscientious to do such a thing. He would just have to deal with it, he thought.

He grabbed the package and slammed the door as he departed.

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