The sunlight sliced through the attic window, exposing the full extent of the mess. She pressed her lips together, her shoulders stiff. She had been warned, but she didn’t think it would be this bad.

Old furniture, covered in sheets, occupied most of the space. Underneath, she found a pile of old records, stacked haphazardly. A child's rocking horse stood in the corner, its paint chipped and peeling.

A vein throbbed in her temple. She was disgusted. She spun on her heel, determined to clear this out at once.

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