indignant - Story 72439 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Liam was watching a cooking competition show. One of the contestants was making a dish he had spent years perfecting: his signature chicken pot pie. He sat frozen as the contestant presented his version.

A knot formed in his stomach. The contestant, a cocky young chef, was claiming the dish as his own creation. The flavors, the crust, the presentation – it was all a distorted version of his pie.

Liam’s jaw tightened, and his knuckles turned white. He couldn't believe it. He felt the blood begin to rush to his head. He knew that the only way to right this wrong was to keep creating, keep baking, keep sharing his recipe with the people he loved.

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