"I'm joining the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster," Sarah's sister, Emily, declared, twirling a strand of spaghetti around her finger. Sarah sputtered, a laugh catching in her throat, quickly morphing into a cough. She smoothed the wrinkles in the linen tablecloth, a nervous habit. Her cheeks flushed hot. This was just like Emily! Always chasing after the latest trend. She glared at the plate of linguine, suddenly revolted by its shape. "Seriously, Emily? You think that's funny?"

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