The letter arrived on a Tuesday, crisp and official. "Cease and Desist." The words blurred through Maya’s vision. Her breath hitched. Inside, it detailed the patent infringement, listing the exact dates and specifications of her 'solar-powered garden gnome' and the other party's patent of the same item. The paper was practically radiating a superior air. She slammed the letter against the kitchen counter, letting out a frustrated groan. How could someone steal her designs and then, with such blatant smugness, declare legal war?

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