indignant - Story 72126 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He could feel his pulse hammering against his temples. David stared at the flickering screen, which announced the delay with a dismissive nonchalance that infuriated him. His father’s art exhibition – the culmination of a lifetime’s work, and David was going to miss it.

He ran a hand through his hair, leaving it standing on end. He was supposed to be there to support his father. He was his son. He felt a wave of frustration. He had to think of something. He couldn't be late. This was supposed to be perfect.

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