indignant - Story 72509 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

I was putting out the trash cans, a weekly ritual. And there it was. The escape artist. The mutt. Right there, sniffing around. My blood boiled. Another escape from the shoddy fence and neglectful owner.

I stood there, arms crossed, watching the dog. It seemed to sense my ire and skittered back to the hole in the fence. I took a deep breath. I wouldn’t yell. I wouldn’t scream. I would have to talk to him, again.

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