He’d spent the last year burning the candle at both ends – studying late, working weekends at the diner, sacrificing everything for a shot at this education. Now, they were telling him it was all a mistake. Liam paced his tiny apartment, the linoleum floor squeaking under his furious strides. His jaw ticked, a muscle jumping erratically. He ripped the acceptance letter in half, the paper tearing with a satisfying *rip*. The anger, a hot coal in his chest, threatened to consume him.

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