“Unbelievable,” Michael muttered as he read the text message. Jason, his so-called friend, was having a karaoke night on the same night as Michael’s exclusive cocktail tasting. He was speechless.

He tossed the phone onto the coffee table. He felt a throbbing sensation in his temples. He needed to sit down, so he sank onto the sofa. All of that effort, all of the planning... gone down the drain?

He clenched his fists, knuckles turning white. He thought of all of the time he had invested. He had contacted a mixologist. He had designed the invitation. And Jason just waltzes in and tries to steal the spotlight! It was not going to happen.

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