The announcement had been delivered, as usual, with a detached air. Professor Chen, known for his clinical demeanor, had simply stated his resignation, effective at the end of the semester. Maya sat frozen, the blood draining from her face.

Her meticulously crafted research plan, the countless iterations, the endless revisions, all tailored to his expertise. And now, he was abandoning her. She clenched her fists, nails biting into her palms.

The fluorescent lights of the lab hummed, a monotonous drone that amplified the rising tide of… something. Frustration? Disappointment? She couldn't name it. She simply knew she wanted to scream.

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