“Honey, are you sure you want to go out dressed like that?” Her mother’s comment, delivered with a smile, was the last straw. She wanted to yell. She wanted to stomp her feet.

She’d spent years perfecting her style, creating a look that was *hers*. Now, she felt like a child again, being told what to do.

She glared at her reflection. She could feel her face flush with heat. "Yes, Mom, I'm sure," she snapped, her voice a sharp crack in the air.

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