indignant - Story 72339 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He read the headline on the news feed. "Beloved Diner to Close." His coffee cup slipped in his hand. He stared at the screen, disbelieving. "Mom's Place," gone. His mouth went dry.

The diner was more than a restaurant; it was a landmark, a community hub, a second home. He thought of the regulars, the staff, the comforting routine.

He slammed his fist on the desk. He felt a deep, gnawing anger. He looked at his watch. He had to go there. Now.

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