indignant - Story 72013 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news landed like a slap. Uncle George, always the stoic, announced at Thanksgiving dinner that he was becoming a Wiccan. The air crackled. Aunt Carol’s face went stiff, her perfectly coiffed hair seeming to stand on end. She stabbed at a roasted sweet potato with unnecessary force. George, meanwhile, seemed oblivious, beaming and explaining something about the earth mother. He hadn't asked for her opinion. Carol stared at the vibrant fall leaves decorating the table, suddenly seeing them as gaudy and pretentious.

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:

`l`	0.614
`C`	0.369
`de`	0.305
`que`	0.295
`😠`	0.288

Suppressed:

`own`	-0.363
`soon`	-0.302
`optimistic`	-0.270
`உற்ச`	-0.261
`gradually`	-0.256