indignant - Story 72687 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The pottery wheel, once a source of calm, now thrummed with a different kind of energy. He watched his daughter’s hands, shaping the clay with a deftness that he'd never possessed. The clay was smooth and perfect. Her bowls were already better than any he’d ever made.

He felt his jaw tighten. He kept his distance. He needed space.

He watched her pull a perfect mug from the spinning wheel. Her finished pieces were immaculate. She was going to be a better potter than he ever was. A wave of irritation washed over him.

He cleared his throat. "Looks good," he managed, his voice flat. He needed a drink. Immediately.

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