He slammed his textbook shut, the sound echoing in the otherwise quiet library. The injustice of it all! David’s face was flushed, his knuckles white as he gripped the edge of the table. A C+? After all the research, the late nights, the painstaking editing? He felt a heat rise in his chest, a burning sensation that threatened to consume him. His eyes scanned the room, landing on a couple whispering nearby, their innocent conversation suddenly grating on his nerves. He needed to get out, to breathe.

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