indignant - Story 72328 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“The food possessed no soul,” the critic wrote. Those words, those *damning* words, stung like an insult. He was furious. He knew that the critic had only come to the restaurant once, and hadn’t even ordered properly. He tossed the review across the table. He stood up abruptly, knocking over his chair. He paced the length of the kitchen, his hands balled into fists. He had worked too hard, sacrificed too much to be treated like this. He would not be silenced.

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