indignant - Story 72468 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The worn leather-bound journal, filled with her grandfather’s elegant script, was the object of his sister’s scrutiny. She was pacing the room. “It’s just words,” she declared, with a dismissive wave of her hand. “We could get a good sum for it.”

She watched her sister's movements, her movements like a predator circling its prey. He felt a cold shiver run down his spine. The journal held a lifetime of wisdom and secrets.

He felt a hot sting behind his eyes. “It’s not just words,” he finally choked out, his voice thick with emotion. The scent of old paper and ink, usually comforting, now seemed to taunt him.

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