The meticulously crafted spreadsheet practically mocked him. He imagined the quiet scheming, the calculated deception. He felt the blood rush to his head, a burning sensation behind his eyes. He had been a fool. A gullible fool.

He threw the laptop across the room, it crashed against the wall, its screen shattering. The sound barely registered. He needed to be alone.

He escaped to their backyard, pacing the perimeter of the lawn. Each step was heavy, each breath ragged. He would confront her.

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