The announcement crackled through the speakers, confirming what Sophia already knew: another delay. Her face flushed with a fiery heat, a red tide spreading from her neck upwards. She closed her eyes, trying to suppress the urge to scream. Her sister's baby shower – the one she'd spent weeks organizing, the one she’d promised to be at.

She took a deep, shaky breath, fighting the rising tide of anger. She marched to the information desk, her footsteps quick and heavy. She simply had to find out what was going on. Her face had never felt so hot.

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