He was driving, late at night, the empty highway stretching before him. The song started on the radio, his song. A terrible rendition. The singer was off-key, the tempo too fast.

He gripped the steering wheel, knuckles white. He considered pulling over, screaming at the radio. How dare they! They'd ruined it. The raw emotion he'd poured into the music, gone. Replaced with mediocrity.

He flipped through radio stations, searching for anything else. Anything to drown out the sound. He hated the commercialization. He felt like he had been robbed.

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