The sun was setting, casting long shadows across the room as Leo read the letter. The words seemed to jump off the page, each one an accusation. He felt a familiar heat rise in his chest, a burning sensation that had haunted him for years.

He tossed the letter aside, and it landed with a soft thud on his desk. He walked to the window, staring out at the darkening sky. The betrayal, the lies, the damage – he'd spent years trying to forget.

He ran a hand through his hair, his fingers tangling in the gray strands. He felt the familiar ache in his gut, the frustration, the sense of powerlessness. He turned away from the window, knowing that this letter was a reminder of something he could never fully escape.

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