indignant - Story 72474 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The package was small, a thin envelope. *To Mr. Davis: Financial Advice.* He was not Mr. Davis. He was Arthur Finch, and he managed his own portfolio. He did not need unsolicited advice. His knuckles turned white as he examined the envelope.

He tossed it onto the kitchen counter with a dismissive grunt. He’d lived here for a year. He'd painstakingly cultivated his calm oasis. Yet the ghosts of the past, in the form of unwanted mail, continued to haunt him.

The next day, he found the envelope again, now crumpled in the trash.

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