indignant - Story 72124 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"This is ridiculous!" Thomas exclaimed to no one in particular, his voice sharp and brittle. He was supposed to be in New Orleans, attending his grandfather's 90th birthday celebration. He'd even booked a first-class ticket, thinking that would guarantee his timely arrival. Now, he was trapped in this concrete wasteland, watching the minutes tick away.

He threw his phone down on the nearby table, the screen still showing the news of the delay. He felt a throbbing sensation in his temples. He imagined his family waiting, everyone expecting him. He felt his face heat up. This was just unacceptable.

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