The first thing he saw when he woke up was his son’s face, lit by the glow of the computer screen. The second was a half-finished video game review on *his* blog. He had poured years into building his audience.

His heart started to race. He stormed towards the desk, the air crackling with unspoken fury.

He didn't even bother to feign interest. He just stood there, arms crossed, staring at the screen. "Really?" he finally asked, his voice a low growl.

The son looked up, oblivious. “Yeah, Dad. It’s way better than yours. More… current.” The words hung in the air, a final, stinging insult. He felt a throbbing headache developing behind his eyes. He had to leave.

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