“A petting zoo? On the same day?” The words burst out of Robert's mouth before he could stop them. His eyebrows shot up, and his jaw tightened. His carefully planned, sophisticated black tie gala to raise funds for the local hospital? Now overshadowed by a petting zoo.

He ran a hand through his hair, messing up his carefully styled waves. He wanted to scream. He wanted to throw something. He had secured a live band, arranged for a Michelin-starred chef, and hired a renowned photographer!

He stalked over to the window, staring out at the street. He felt a churning sensation in his stomach. He was going to have a lot of phone calls to make, and he would make sure everyone knew the truth.

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