“Honestly,” she said, her voice rising in pitch. The attic had been a black hole. He had assumed, wrongly, that it was empty. Not so.

A chipped teacup, with a floral pattern, sat on a dusty shelf. She picked it up, examining it. The previous residents had been inconsiderate.

She moved around the attic. More castoffs. Old clothes hung on a makeshift clothesline, their fabric brittle with age. A stack of sheet music, yellowed and torn, lay in the corner. She didn't want to touch anything. Why had they left these things behind?

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