"I can't believe this!" Frank barked, his voice echoing in the confined space. His face was growing red. Three hours. He’d missed his son’s soccer game. He'd miss dinner. The anticipation of being there was just destroyed. He paced back and forth, feeling like a caged animal.

He glared at the elevator buttons, as if they were personally responsible for his plight. "I had a *very* important meeting," he growled. “How am I supposed to get any work done?"

He wanted to kick something. He wanted to rage. He let out a sharp sigh and rubbed his temples. This was a nightmare. This was truly terrible.

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