indignant - Story 72915 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The audacity of it! Ben’s stomach churned as he watched the man stroll across his lawn. He felt a sudden, fierce urge to barricade the tree, to wrap it in barbed wire.

"It's blocking my satellite," the man had said. Ben just stared at him, jaw locked. This wasn’t about a satellite dish. It was about something deeper, something far more sinister.

Ben’s knuckles were white as he gripped the watering can. He wanted to throw it, to shatter it against the pristine pavement. Instead, he just stood there, a volcano about to erupt.

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