The receptionist had a sweet, innocent face, completely unaware of the viper she was about to unleash. “Dr. Reynolds will see you now, Mr. Davies.”

Mr. Davies rose, every muscle tense. He walked into the office, his jaw clenched, and there he was: Kevin Reynolds. The kid who had locked him in a locker, made him eat dirt, and ruined his chances with Emily. Kevin Reynolds, now a "doctor." The world was a cruel joke.

“Please, have a seat,” Kevin said, gesturing towards a plush armchair. His voice was smooth, trained. It was infuriating.

Mr. Davies remained standing. He folded his arms across his chest. "I’m not sure I'm comfortable sitting," he said, his voice low and tight. He could feel the pulse in his temple. He had to get out of here. He almost turned and fled.

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