indignant - Story 72094 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The doorbell chimed, a cheery sound that seemed to mock the knot of tension tightening in her chest. It was her brother, bringing over a casserole. He always brought over casseroles. He had a wife and a house and a normal life.

He gave her a friendly pat on the back, a gesture that felt patronizing. "Glad you're back, Sis."

"Yeah," she muttered, avoiding his gaze. The casserole sat in the fridge next to a container of her father's famous chili. The familiarity of it all felt stifling. She couldn't breathe.

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