indignant - Story 72546 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

John felt a hot flush creep up his neck as he read through the messages. His daughter, Jessica, the sweet, always-smiling girl, was… gossiping, sharing secrets, making plans he’d not been a party to, with people he didn’t even know existed. He felt a sting behind his eyes. He’d thought he knew her. He was clearly wrong.

He confronted her at the dinner table. She was picking at her food, lost in her own thoughts. “Jessica,” he began, his voice strained, “I want to know about this… account.” He slid his phone across the table.

Jessica looked at the phone, then at him. A flash of something defensive flickered across her face, before she quickly masked it. "It's nothing," she mumbled, her voice barely a whisper. She looked down at her plate.

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