indignant - Story 72777 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The lawyer offered a polite smile, but it didn't reach his eyes. "And for you, Mr. Julian..." He paused, drawing out the suspense. Julian leaned forward, expecting something, anything, more than what his eyes told him.

He was left the family's collection of dusty books. Each of them in a deteriorating condition. His sister, Eleanor, however, had the family's house. The house with the large garden, the one he had always dreamed of inheriting.

His fists clenched. She’d always been the favoured one, the one who got everything. He would not stand for it.

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