Her breath quickened as she recognized her watercolor painting in the local dentist's waiting room. The painting was her self-portrait, commissioned by a now-defunct art school. The doctor smiled at her. "I love the new artwork." She felt the urge to bolt. Her fingers were itching. This wasn't her. It was as though someone had stolen her identity. She said, her voice shaking slightly, "I painted that a long time ago. I wasn’t aware that my work was being exhibited in your office."

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