indignant - Story 72085 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The clanging of metal woke Robert from his afternoon nap. He bolted upright, heart hammering against his ribs. What in the world…? He peered through the blinds, and his jaw dropped. The Peterson’s were already at it, hammering posts into the ground.

A wave of heat surged through him. He’d barely said hello to the Petersons. Now, they were erecting some kind of barrier. He felt a throbbing ache behind his eyes.

He threw back the covers and stomped towards the closet. He needed coffee. Strong coffee.

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