indignant - Story 72205 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The blood in her veins felt like ice. She watched, paralyzed, as the truck's hydraulics groaned, lifting her little Fiat off the ground. Her breath hitched. She couldn't believe this was happening.

"Wait!" she managed to croak out, her voice barely audible. "That's… that's my car!"

The driver, a skinny teenager with multiple piercings, barely glanced her way. He continued to fiddle with the straps. She started jogging toward the truck, her purse slapping against her hip. She couldn't let them take her car! Not like this! Not without an explanation!

Her hands were shaking as she frantically searched for her phone.

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