indignant - Story 72224 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The discovery was made in the basement, amongst boxes labeled "Old Christmas Decorations" and "Things We Might Need Someday." She'd been helping her dad, sorting through the clutter. Then she saw it. "Sarah's Scholastic Treasures." Her blood ran cold.

She held the box's contents gingerly. Her teenage angst, preserved for posterity. Every awkward poem, every poorly written essay, every disastrously failed math quiz. A wave of heat swept over her. She knew a rage she had not felt in years.

Later, she found her mother in the garden, pruning roses. "Mom," she said, her voice dangerously calm, "I have a question."

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