indignant - Story 72554 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The tiny, mewling creature in Ethan’s arms felt like a personal affront. His roommate, Liam, stood beaming, holding a bag of cat food. Ethan had made it clear: no animals. He had allergies, for one. And the constant shedding...

He backed away, the kitten's claws scratching lightly at his shirt. “Liam,” he began, his voice taking on an edge he rarely displayed. “This is not what we agreed on.”

Liam's smile faltered slightly. “He’s adorable, though, right?”

Ethan just stared at the fluffball. It didn’t matter how cute the cat was.

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