indignant - Story 72977 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The knock at the door was sharp, insistent. Eleanor, still in her dressing gown, opened it to find her neighbor, Mr. Davis, beaming expectantly.

“Eleanor! What a pleasure to find you at home!” he greeted her with a smile that didn't quite reach his eyes. “We're planning a community project, you see. And your yard is simply *perfect*. Perhaps we could use a portion of it for…for a pumpkin patch?”

Eleanor's hand flew to her chest. She took a step backward, a gasp escaping her lips. *A pumpkin patch?* The thought was preposterous.

She suddenly felt a searing heat behind her eyes. Her vision blurred, and the world seemed to tilt slightly. The audacity of the man! Her private garden was to be overrun with…pumpkins?

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