It felt like someone had punched a hole in Emily’s gut. The diary, her sanctuary, lay open on the shared desk, its pages vulnerable to a stranger’s gaze. The air suddenly felt thick, oppressive, making it difficult to breathe. She stood rooted to the spot, watching as her roommate, Sarah, casually closed the book.

“Did you…?” Emily began, her voice barely a whisper. She wanted to scream, to lash out, but the words caught in her throat.

Sarah, looking uncomfortable, started to speak.

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