"Are you *kidding* me?" Marco spat the words out, staring at the student newspaper. The headline screamed the news. His scholarship! His future! He crumpled the paper in his fist, the edges digging into his palm. A pulse throbbed in his temple. He’d worked two jobs, sacrificed everything. And for what? For some bean counters to decide his education wasn't worth it? He tossed the paper into the overflowing trash bin, the action offering a small, fleeting sense of satisfaction.

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