The realtor had sworn up and down there were no hidden flaws. "Move-in ready!" she’d chirped, her smile saccharine enough to curdle milk. Now, Sarah stood in the dusty crawlspace, her fingers tracing the outline of a recently plastered-over doorway. The audacity! To hide something, to *lie* by omission… It was just wrong. Her jaw clenched, and she kicked at a loose brick, sending a cloud of gritty debris into the air. This was going to cost her, she just *knew* it.

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