indignant - Story 72510 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The gall of it. I'd just finished watering my prize-winning roses. The sun was setting, casting long shadows across the yard, everything was pristine. Then, a blur of brown fur. I felt a prickling sensation on my skin. He was at it again, digging under the fence, oblivious to the years of work I had put in.

I wanted to scream. I wanted to shake the dog. I clenched my fists. I was going to lose it, one day. One of these days. I stomped inside and slammed the door.

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