Sophia crossed her arms, a shiver running down her spine. Mrs. Rodriguez, her Spanish teacher, had just requested to follow her on LinkedIn. She was baffled. LinkedIn was for professionals, not students! She barely even used the platform.

She felt a surge of confusion. Why? She felt like she'd done something wrong. Did she mess up a homework assignment? Did she accidentally offend her? She quickly opened her account, reviewing everything. She hadn't even posted anything in months.

Her hands shook slightly as she went through her profile. She was almost sure there was nothing that should have concerned her. She sighed.

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