indignant - Story 72331 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sign was crooked, like a sneer. "Closing. After 20 years." Twenty years! That's how long Maria had been coming to Tony's. Her stomach churned, a cold wave washing over her. She gripped the edge of the counter, knuckles white.

She slammed her fist softly on the table. Twenty years of perfect pasta fagioli, the best damn meatballs this side of the Mississippi. How could this be happening? She pictured the empty storefront, the for-rent sign. A low growl escaped her lips.

"Excuse me," she barked at the waitress, her voice sharper than she intended. "Is this…is this true? Tony's is actually closing?" The waitress, a young woman with tired eyes, simply nodded, avoiding eye contact. Maria's face flushed.

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