The air was getting stuffy. David felt an unwelcome itch under his collar. Three hours. He felt the familiar churning in his stomach. He wasn't one to panic, but this situation was… irritating, to say the least.

“Well,” he stated, his voice stiff. He tried to control the tremble. “This is rather inconvenient, wouldn’t you say? I had a very busy afternoon." He was late to an important meeting. And now? Now this.

His coworker, Carol, was humming along to some music. He was frustrated. Why wasn't she concerned?

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