The thought of being boxed in, of losing his expansive view, made Charles want to scream. He was used to the openness, the feeling of space. Now, this… this intrusion.

He balled up the letter in his hand. A fence! A solid, unyielding barrier. He felt a cold knot tighten in his stomach. He pictured the fence, ugly and imposing, obstructing the sunset.

He threw the crumpled paper towards the fireplace, missing the grate entirely. He needed to do something. Anything.

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