indignant - Story 72024 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"He's got the bestest laugh, Uncle Tom!" Lily chirped, pointing at the picture. Tom's face grew rigid. He'd seen this creature before. Its presence made the muscles in his neck ache. His Barnaby was special to him. He was a comfort during tough times, a confidant. A part of him.

He picked up a crayon and carefully placed it back into the crayon box. "That's nice, Lily," he said, the words feeling tight and unfamiliar in his throat. Inside, a low growl was building.

Tom struggled to find a distraction. He scanned the room, landing on the picture again. Was Lily aware of how much this symbol meant to him? He quickly turned away, deciding to change the subject, and the subject matter.

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