indignant - Story 72208 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The back of his neck prickled. He had the distinct impression that someone was trying to make a fool of him. This had to be a mistake. A monumental, idiotic mistake. He strode towards the tow truck, his fists balled at his sides.

“There’s been a mistake,” he announced, the words coming out clipped and sharp. “That’s my car. In my driveway.”

The driver, a young man with a headset, looked up, a flicker of surprise in his eyes. He then returned to his task, completely ignoring him. The audacity!

He felt a sudden urge to kick something. Or yell. Or both.

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