“Unbelievable.” Maria stared out the window, at the bustling street below. She’d spent the last decade building relationships, nurturing clients. Now, some stranger was going to reap the rewards of her labor. This company was her life.

She ran a hand through her hair, the movement rough and frustrated.

She grabbed her phone and texted her closest colleague. "Can you believe this? I'm fuming."

She waited, her breath caught in her chest, feeling as if she were trapped in a cage.

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