The world seemed to tilt on its axis. Liam stared at the glowing screen, the damning F hanging like a noose in the digital space. His stomach lurched, a sensation of betrayal welling up within him. He had stayed up all night, slaving over the programming assignment. His code was elegant, efficient, flawless. He ran the program again, just to make sure. Still an F. The keyboard mocked him, its keys gleaming under the fluorescent lights. With a frustrated sigh he got up from his chair. This was preposterous. He had to go talk to someone.

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