indignant - Story 72397 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old book dealer barely looked up from his work as Mark strode up to the counter. Mark slapped the book and the letter down in front of him. "This is outrageous!" he exclaimed, his voice tight.

The dealer, a man with a walrus mustache, slowly raised his eyes. "And what seems to be the trouble, sir?" he asked, his voice flat.

"This! I bought this book, a first edition! And what do I find? Some… some… personal drivel!" Mark gestured at the letter with a sweeping hand. He was losing his patience. He wanted to scream.

The dealer shrugged. "Happens," he said, returning to his work.

Mark felt his face grow hot. "Happens? This is a desecration! I paid good money for this!"

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