“Honestly,” Chloe exclaimed to her reflection, arms crossed, staring down the tulips. They were a muddy shade of purple, the color of a bruise. Her lips were set in a tight line. Someone was trying to be clever, she was sure of it. She squinted at the vase, searching for a clue, a watermark, anything to give her a lead. Nothing.

She was going to find out who sent these, and when she did…well, she hadn't decided what she’d do, but it would be satisfying.

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