The news had hit her like a physical blow. Her face was flushed, her hands were clenched into fists, and the small smile that was permanently plastered on her face was now gone. She leaned against her desk, the cool surface doing little to soothe the heat that was now coursing through her veins. The world seemed to be closing in on her.

She forced herself to breathe, trying to regain control. She needed to leave the office. She grabbed her bag and walked quickly to the elevator. She had to get out.

She pushed the button to the parking garage with extra force.

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