He glared at the official-looking envelope sitting on his kitchen counter. It felt heavy, a weight of injustice pressing down on him. David ran a hand through his already dishevelled hair, his brow furrowed in a deep, angry frown. The implication, the sheer audacity of it all, made him clench his fists.

"What a load of rubbish," he spat, his voice laced with venom. He slammed the counter with his hand, the sound echoing through the otherwise quiet apartment. It was a spacious place, and he’d done all the right things to get it. He'd even helped with some maintenance.

The notice claimed unpaid rent. Unpaid! He meticulously tracked every payment, every transaction. He rummaged through his bills, his face growing redder with each document he checked, a testament to his mounting frustration. He had receipts! He would show them!

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