indignant - Story 72486 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“But you don’t understand!” she shouted, her voice raw, directed to the demolition supervisor. "My grandmother planted that rose bush!" The supervisor just shrugged, a man immune to sentimentality, it seemed. His eyes were cold. Sarah noticed her knuckles were white. The supervisor gestured to his crew, and the machines whirred to life. She felt the tears welling in her eyes, threatening to spill. The house, her only connection to her grandmother, was about to be erased forever.

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