He was standing on the outside of the stadium, watching the team practice. The afternoon sun beat down, and he felt the sweat trickling down his back. The coach said he wasn’t fast enough, that he didn't have the "heart." He thought about all the miles he had run, the pain he endured, the early mornings.

He watched the team’s drills. The team he would never play with.

He felt the tremors of anger building inside.

He walked away, shoving his hands in his pockets.

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