He hadn't even bothered to put on shoes. Barry strode across his lawn, the damp grass squishing beneath his bare feet. The old apple tree, belonging to Mr. and Mrs. Olsen, was lying horizontal, a green and brown monstrosity. And, of course, it had taken out his favorite bird bath.

He sucked in a sharp breath.

He'd spent hours polishing that birdbath. Years even. He wanted them to feel the same pain. The thought gave him a strange, almost satisfying feeling. He marched toward the Olsen's door.

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