"Well, that's just… fantastic," Liam muttered under his breath, his voice laced with acid. He tossed the email onto the already overflowing kitchen counter, the screen still flickering with the offending words. “Not a good fit for our current list.” Current list? What about his years of toil? The sacrifices?

He snatched a carton of milk from the refrigerator, pouring a generous amount directly into the cereal box. He didn't even bother with a bowl. His jaw clenched as he shoveled the sugary mess into his mouth, the sweetness doing nothing to alleviate the bitter taste in his mouth. He felt a desperate urge to *rewrite* them – to show them!

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