indignant - Story 72716 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the letter, his eyes narrowed. It was a formal, cold statement, devoid of any consideration. James felt a tremor in his hands as he read it again. The accusations were ludicrous, preposterous! He had always been a model tenant.

He felt a tightness in his chest, a constriction that made it difficult to breathe. The world seemed to tilt on its axis. He slowly lowered himself into a chair, the weight of the situation suddenly bearing down on him.

He clenched his jaw, his gaze fixed on the offending document. He wouldn’t let them win. He would fight this. He would show them what he was made of. He would make them regret this decision.

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