indignant - Story 72455 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He gripped the phone, the screen reflecting his own furious face. “What do you mean, ‘not related’?” he snapped at his mother. The words felt alien, detached from his own reality. He had always been told he had his father’s eyes, his mother’s laugh. Now, according to the test, those were lies, comfortable lies. He slammed the phone down, the sound reverberating through the otherwise quiet house. He wanted to scream, to break something, to obliterate the evidence.

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