indignant - Story 72850 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Sarah, breathing heavily, ripped the card out of the mailbox. "Excessive piano playing," it read. She slammed it onto the kitchen counter. The woman next door had no appreciation for art! This was an attack on her passion.

She stalked over to the piano, sat down, and began to play a piece with loud, staccato chords, the notes echoing sharply through the thin walls. She would show that woman the power of music. She would show her who was boss.

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