indignant - Story 72095 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The thermostat was set to seventy-two. Seventy-two! He was perpetually cold, a fact his parents seemed to find endlessly amusing. He cranked the dial up, his fingers trembling, imagining them coming in, turning it down again.

He went to the kitchen. His mother was there, humming as she washed dishes. "It's freezing in here, Mom," he said, voice tight.

"Oh, nonsense," she chirped. "I'm perfectly comfortable. You always were such a delicate flower." He could barely contain the anger bubbling under the surface. It was all a complete disaster.

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