indignant - Story 72336 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d driven three hours, specifically for the spicy noodles at Dragon's Breath. He pulled into the parking lot, already salivating, ready for his monthly fix. The sign hit him like a punch to the gut. CLOSED. Permanently.

His car door slammed shut with unnecessary force. He stalked towards the window, his expression tight. The blinds were down, the interior dark.

He clenched his fists, his knuckles white. The owners, the gentle couple with the kind smiles… had they even tried? He grumbled under his breath.

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