The gala was supposed to be a celebration. For Sarah, however, it was a nightmare. A large screen displayed a presentation of student success stories. And there, in dazzling lights, her essay on her experience with a scholarship program.

She felt a jolt of shock, then a wave of fury. Her breath caught in her throat. She clenched her jaw.

She felt a sudden urge to flee the room, to escape the watchful eyes of the crowd. She quickly excused herself, making her way towards the exit.

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