indignant - Story 72320 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He'd been volunteering at the local community center, something he'd started recently. She'd found him sitting at the kitchen table, a notebook open in front of him. The notebook contained pages of her own native language, written in her own style of handwriting.

She walked into the room, silent. He looked up, startled, then immediately tried to close the notebook. She placed her hands firmly on the table, preventing him from closing it. She felt a knot tighten in her stomach.

He stammered an explanation about wanting to "connect" with her family. But it felt wrong. It felt intrusive. She moved her hand away and walked out.

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