Michael's pulse hammered in his ears. He forced a smile, but his teeth felt like they were bared. He watched the man from his front porch, his eyes narrowed.

"The roots are… intrusive," the neighbor had said, as if it was a fact. Michael’s hands tightened on the railing. *Intrusive*? The tree was a part of him.

He bit the inside of his cheek, tasting blood. He’d spend every last cent on a lawyer before he let this happen.

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