The air in the courtroom was thick with tension. He sat rigid in his chair, his hands clasped tightly. Across from him sat the lawyer representing the company that had stolen his invention, the automated pet feeder. The lawyer's smirking face was an affront. The man’s leg bounced erratically as he listened to their case, his fingernails digging into his palms. He felt a pressure building behind his eyes, a desperate need to lash out, to scream at the injustice of it all.

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