"Unbelievable," Mark hissed, the word a low growl in his throat. He’d expected at least something. Anything. His sister, Claire, inherited the family yacht, a magnificent vessel that had sailed the world.

He, on the other hand, had been given a box of old photographs, a collection of images of people he barely knew. She was the golden child, the one who always had everything.

He felt a tremor run through his body. He felt a desire to destroy something. Anything.

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