He grabbed the metal fence, his knuckles white. The air felt thick with the scent of sawdust and broken dreams. "You think you can just…take it?" he said, his voice a low growl, to the bulldozer operator. The operator didn't even look at him, just revved the engine. He let go of the fence, his hands trembling. He had wanted to buy the house, to save it, but the money had been too much. Now, it was just a pile of rubble waiting to be created.

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