The cafeteria, usually a vibrant hub of activity, seemed muted, the air thick with unspoken tension. I pushed my tray away, suddenly unable to eat. How could they? After everything? I wanted to shout, to rail against the injustice of it all. But the words caught in my throat. My fists clenched. My classmates were looking around them as if the walls might start to crumble at any second. I wanted to leave, to escape this stifling atmosphere, but I couldn't. I was trapped.

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