The gallery's pristine white walls seemed to mock Leo as he stared at "Sunrise Over Despair," his painting, hanging proudly under a spotlight. He hadn’t given them permission. A vein throbbed in his temple. He clenched his fists, knuckles white. The title card, with a fabricated biography that attributed the work to "R.J. Sterling," was a final, egregious insult. He stomped towards a flustered gallery assistant, his voice tight. “That painting… I created that. And I assure you, my name is not R.J. Sterling.”

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