The vibrant colors of the mural seemed to mock Emily. She had spent hours helping create the masterpiece, but according to Ben, she had been a mere assistant. He spoke in glowing terms of his own genius and skills.

She felt a tremor run through her, and she suddenly found herself wanting to leave. The air felt thick, making it difficult to breathe.

“I… I think I’ll go grab some water," she said, her voice barely a whisper. She spun around and walked out of the classroom, her steps rapid.

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