indignant - Story 72745 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence of the evening was broken by the sharp crack of snapping wood. Maria jumped, spilling her tea. Then she saw the culprit - the old willow, belonging to the new family on the street. It hadn't just fallen; it had landed right on top of her prized vegetable garden.

She felt a tremor run through her.

She had poured her heart and soul into that garden all summer. Now, squash and tomatoes were crushed and buried. She picked up the phone, her fingers trembling as she dialed.

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