"Seriously?" David barked, the question aimed at no one in particular. He was already halfway across the office, heading for the water cooler, when he caught sight of the announcement on the digital display. He stopped dead in his tracks. Susan. Susan, who spent half her time gossiping and the other half playing solitaire at her desk.

He felt his jaw clench, his teeth grinding. His carefully crafted, always-polite facade started to crumble. He abandoned the water cooler and marched back to his desk, grabbing his stapler and slamming it down. He would have to go home and tell his wife and children about this.

He began furiously deleting files from his computer, making no logical sense of the process.

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