"Acquired," the word felt obscene as it flashed across the screen in the board room. Charles stared at the Powerpoint. This was his legacy, the business he built. He took a long, slow breath. The room was stuffy.

He pushed back from the table, the chair skidding on the polished floor. He couldn't stomach it any longer.

“When will the… change happen?” His voice was a flat, dry whisper. The lead lawyer looked at him as if he were a bug.

He felt the sweat beading on his forehead.

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