indignant - Story 72170 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He saw her across the room. He felt his pulse quicken, and his hands clenched into fists. He had tried to prepare for this, but nothing could have prepared him. It was Karen, and she was talking to someone he did not know.

He tried to keep his expression neutral. He failed. He took a deep breath, and his chest felt tight. He felt a sudden, sharp pang of something unpleasant.

He excused himself from his conversation and walked towards the bar, ordering a strong drink. He refused to look at her. He didn’t want her to know how he felt. He wanted her to know that he was fine, even though he knew he was not.

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