indignant - Story 72968 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The injustice. The sheer, unadulterated injustice of it. "Go skydiving." "Run a marathon." "Start a business." These were his partner, Carol's, ambitions. Things he would have loved to support, to share. Yet she hadn't said a word.

He found her at the dining table, working on some paperwork. He slammed the list onto the table. "Carol!" he barked, louder than intended.

Her head snapped up, and her eyes widened in surprise. "Where did you find this?" she asked, her voice laced with confusion. "I thought I lost it." "Lost it?" He repeated the words, his face contorted. The question hung in the room, unanswered.

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