“Ready for tonight?” The message, a simple inquiry, was intended for David’s new girlfriend. It had, unfortunately, landed with his *ex-wife*. He felt a wave of cold wash over him.

David swore under his breath, a sharp, irritated sound. He threw the phone onto his desk with a thud, the sound echoing in the silent office. He stood abruptly, pushing his chair backward with a screech, and started pacing, his steps heavy and rapid. The injustice! The outright absurdity!

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