indignant - Story 72559 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The persistent barking grated on Daniel’s nerves. He stood in the doorway, staring at the small, yipping dog that was happily chewing on his slipper. His roommate, Chris, had acquired a puppy, despite their previous conversation about noise and shared responsibility.

He felt a throbbing pulse in his forehead.

"Chris," he said, his voice flat, "This is not acceptable." He pointed at his chewed-up slipper.

Chris just chuckled, scooping up the puppy.

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