indignant - Story 72206 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He felt his stomach twist into a knot. He’d only been gone for an hour! An hour! He glared at the tow truck driver. A smirk played on his lips.

“What’s the problem here?” he asked, his voice deliberately controlled, though his heart was hammering against his ribs.

The driver, a burly man who seemed to relish his task, merely pointed to a small, nearly invisible sign. “No parking after 8 AM,” he mumbled.

“But… but I live here!” he sputtered. The nerve of it! The sheer audacity! He felt a wave of dizziness. He couldn't think straight!

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