The news hit Brenda like a sucker punch. “Brenda, we’re going to need you to play right field,” the softball coach declared, oblivious to the volcano erupting inside her. Years of dedication to third base, all for naught?

Her jaw tightened. The blood pounded in her ears. She could feel the sting of unshed tears pricking at her eyes. She gripped the handle of her bat, knuckles white.

“I’m the third baseman,” she finally managed, her voice barely above a whisper.

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