The air in the sterile office was thick with tension. Sarah felt her hands clench into fists as she stared at the official document. Her brother, David, had been left the family farm – a sprawling estate with fertile fields and a thriving livestock business.

She, however, was left a small, crumbling collection of stamps. Her father had hated her choice in careers, and this seemed like a final jab at her failures. He didn't think she was serious.

She felt a deep, burning sensation in her chest. She needed to leave the room.

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