The email was the final insult. They had chosen Karen. Karen, who spent half of her time on Facebook and the other half playing Candy Crush. He felt a tremor run through his body. He straightened his back, his muscles tightening with the effort.

He took a deep breath, then another. He sat staring at the screen for several minutes, his gaze fixed, unwavering. Then, slowly, deliberately, he began to delete every file on his computer. He was not going to work another moment for this company. He would move on.

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