The news about the fence, coming from a casual chat with his lawn care guy, had left Derek feeling… unsettled. More than that, it felt like a betrayal. His eyes narrowed.

He paced back and forth across his living room, a low growl rumbling in his chest. He replayed the conversation in his mind, searching for clues, for an explanation. Nothing.

The sheer, unadulterated *gall* of it all! His hands clenched into fists, the nails digging into his palms. He knew what he had to do.

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