indignant - Story 72030 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The artwork was spread across the floor, a vibrant mess of crayons and imagination. He knew the character. The grinning face, the mismatched limbs. It was "Bobbles", his childhood confidante. His heart pounded. This audacity!

He felt a hot flush creep up his neck. It was *his* creation. This was a personal betrayal. He felt an intense urge to protect his memory, his private sanctuary.

He rose from the chair. "Lily," he said, his voice a tight whisper, "Let's put those away, shall we?" He needed to get the artwork away from him, to take a step back from this intrusion. The feeling inside him churned.

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