The stained-glass window of the church felt like it was mocking Harold. His son, Ben, stood beside him, radiating an irritating calmness. "It's all about community, Dad," Ben said, his voice soft. Harold gritted his teeth. Community? They’d always been a secular family, valuing critical thinking above all else. Harold’s hands clenched into fists, the hard leather of his gloves digging into his palms. He didn’t want to be here. He didn’t want to hear about community.

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