indignant - Story 72090 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Unbelievable." Sarah was fuming. She couldn't believe her neighbor, Mr. Henderson, would do this. She paced back and forth in the kitchen, muttering to herself, her fists clenched. They'd always been cordial, but never close.

She could feel a prickly heat in her cheeks. He'd always been so… condescending! Now, a fence? It was as if he was trying to stick it to her somehow.

She grabbed the phone, the cold metal a stark contrast to her burning fingertips. He would be hearing from her, that was certain.

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