indignant - Story 72165 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Oh, *come on*," Ben muttered under his breath, watching as Chloe approached the table where he was sitting. He felt a wave of irritation wash over him. He felt his face heat up, and he could have sworn he started to sweat.

He quickly picked up his water glass and took a large gulp, trying to appear unbothered. He heard her greeting everyone, laughing and sharing pleasantries. She didn't look at him directly.

As she turned to him, her smile seemed… strained. He tried to mirror it, but he felt the muscles in his face become rigid. He forced a response. He wanted to make it clear that whatever they had was over.

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