"Outrageous!" Sarah slammed the notice against the kitchen table. The force of the impact made the cheap plastic table wobble. She felt a surge of pure, unadulterated fury course through her. How dare they! After all she had done for this place!

She paced the small, cramped apartment, each step punctuated by a sharp intake of breath. The air felt thick, heavy, as if the very walls were closing in on her. She had poured her heart and soul into this apartment, making it a home with love.

She imagined herself storming into the landlord's office, giving him a piece of her mind, letting him know the kind of tenant he was about to lose. She’d make him regret this decision, she vowed. The anger fueled her every thought.

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