indignant - Story 72639 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sun, streaming through the window, illuminated dust motes dancing in the air as Eleanor pulled the letter from its hiding place. It was from her to her daughter, written after a terrible argument.

She read the words, once again feeling the sting of her daughter's harsh words. The letter, filled with a mother's wounded pride, seemed harsh and brittle. She had written it in a fit of emotion.

She felt the heat rising in her chest again. She wanted to scream. She set the letter in her lap, then rose and walked to the kitchen, leaving it behind.

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