"I don't understand," she hissed under her breath, her voice tight with disbelief. Emily’s voice was barely a whisper, yet the anger in it was palpable. A D. A grade so low it seemed like a personal insult. She had attended every lecture, participated in every discussion, and diligently completed all the assignments. Now, this? She felt a sudden urge to scream. The classroom around her blurred, the other students seeming to fade into the background. She felt a knot forming in her throat, a physical manifestation of her mounting frustration.

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