A wave of nausea washed over him. The grade, a B-, glared at him from the page. Peter felt a sudden, inexplicable urge to throw up. He’d spent weeks preparing for this exam. Now, this! The professor's comments were dismissive, condescending. "Needs more work." More work? He'd practically bled over this paper! His hands were shaking as he shoved the paper into his backpack. He needed to go outside, get some fresh air. He needed to be alone.

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