indignant - Story 72027 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the picture seemed to mock him, the lines haphazard. He knew that face. He knew that smile. He knew the name: "Blubber." It was *his* creation, a comfort and a friend during a difficult childhood. Now, it was just… *there*, in Lily's drawings.

A coldness settled in his stomach. He felt a sting, a prickle under his skin. He folded his arms, the action a deliberate attempt to contain the turmoil brewing inside. This was a violation.

He cleared his throat. "Lily," he said, his voice carefully neutral, "Where did you get the idea for Blubber?" He braced himself for her innocent reply, the words echoing unpleasantly in his mind.

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