A tremor ran through Sarah’s fingers, making her spill a bit of the tea she was pouring. The steam, normally a comfort, felt scalding. She stared across the fence.

“The shade, you see…” Mr. Thompson trailed off, his gaze avoiding hers. She knew what was coming.

Her chest felt constricted. The tree. The beautiful, strong, resilient tree. It wasn't about the shade! It was about control. About taking something from her.

She slammed the teapot down on the counter. She would not let him.

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