indignant - Story 72966 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the words, each one a tiny stab: "Learn to play the guitar." "Travel through Southeast Asia." "Master a foreign language." After twenty years, she felt she could do all these things without him?

He found her in the sunroom, watering her plants, humming a little tune. The list felt heavy in his pocket, a lead weight. "Mary," he said, his voice flat. He pulled the list from his pocket and held it out to her.

She looked at it, her face a blank canvas. "Where did you find this?" she asked. He didn't answer. He waited for her to fill the void. After a long pause, she simply began watering her plants again. The silence was deafening.

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