A wave of heat surged through her. It was as if the room itself was closing in, the walls pressing inwards. She pushed back from the doctor's desk, her chair scraping across the floor. This couldn't be happening. She was in perfect health. She felt a burning sensation in her throat.

She turned to the woman in the waiting room, who had been called in. The woman was just smiling, waving her hand!

She took a deep breath. She wanted to yell at the doctor, to demand a recount. She wanted to scream at the sky.

This was unfair.

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