“Condos,” Mark repeated the word, spitting it out as if it were poison. He slammed the lid on his laptop, the screen reflecting his enraged expression.

His knuckles were white as he gripped the edge of the desk. The sheer audacity of the whole thing was staggering. He had spent years transforming this place into his own.

He pushed back from the desk, pacing the small apartment. The familiar creak of the floorboards was suddenly a reminder of everything he would lose. The thought ignited a fire in his belly.

He wanted to smash something, to tear down the posters on the wall, to scream until his voice was raw.

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