indignant - Story 72809 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He had always envied the ease with which his younger sister seemed to navigate the world. Now, he understood why. She’d known about him. She’d known about the secret. He felt a fresh wave of resentment.

He paced his small apartment, kicking at the scattered clothes on the floor. He should have been told. He *deserved* to be told. All this time, she had been withholding this information, all the while knowing the truth. The nerve of it!

He grabbed his phone, ready to confront her. He didn't care about politeness. He didn't care about anything but the rage now consuming him.

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