The text read: "Sorry, can't make it to the movie, I have a thing." Sarah was mortified. The recipient? *The person she was supposed to go to the movies with.* But who had it gone to? Her *father*. Oh, the utter humiliation.

Sarah’s hands started to tremble, and she balled them into fists. A knot formed in her throat, making it difficult to breathe. She stalked over to the window, staring out at the rain-streaked glass, a scowl etched across her face.

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