indignant - Story 72100 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The house felt too small, the walls closing in. He needed space to breathe, to think. He went out to the back yard, where he paced.

His father called him. “Dinner’s ready!” It was less an invitation, more of a command.

He didn't respond. He kept walking, his steps quick and choppy. He wanted to shout, but he couldn't. His throat constricted. He just kept walking, away from the summons, away from the expectations.

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