"Unbelievable!" James muttered under his breath, tossing his phone onto his bed. His history teacher, Mr. Thompson, had started following him on Spotify. It wasn’t a huge deal, but he found the intrusion unpleasant.

James had a carefully curated playlist on Spotify that he used to reflect and center himself. Now, Mr. Thompson would know what music he listened to. James felt a prickle of annoyance. He never imagined he'd have to monitor his history teacher's listening habits.

He considered changing his profile picture, just for spite. He decided against it. He just didn't want him to know what he was doing or thinking. He was tired of having to deal with it.

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