The overhead light flickered to life, illuminating the attic's neglected contents. He pulled a face. The previous inhabitants, clearly, had no sense of obligation.

An old radio sat on a shelf, coated in a thick layer of dust. He picked it up, expecting it to be empty. It wasn't. Inside were stacks of old photographs, a scrapbook, and a letter addressed "To my dearest..." He dropped the radio and retreated a step.

He began to clear the way, throwing things in a pile. What right did they have to leave these things here?

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