indignant - Story 72912 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He was here again. Arthur saw Mr. Gable from his kitchen window, his shadow falling across the shared fence. He sighed, the air catching in his chest. That guy… always something.

Arthur, clutching his coffee mug, slowly opened the back door. “Yes, Mr. Gable?” he asked, his voice strained. He could feel his eye twitch already.

“Just wanted to talk about that maple, Arthur. It’s blocking my sunlight. A nuisance.” His smile didn’t reach his eyes. Arthur wanted to scream, to grab the man and shake him until his teeth rattled.

The nerve of the man! His precious sunlight, while Arthur enjoyed the shade.

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