indignant - Story 72670 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Sweat beaded on Sarah's forehead. The thought of all the things she *could* have been doing was making her sick. Three hours. She glared at the ceiling, then turned her gaze towards the air conditioning vent, which was not functional. She felt her hands clench into fists.

“This is an absolute farce,” she spat, her voice laced with bitterness. She'd been on her way to a concert. A rare outing. The thought made her skin crawl.

She noticed the calm demeanor of the other person in the elevator, a younger man, as he leaned against the elevator walls. “Seriously, are you even concerned?” she asked, with a voice she could barely control.

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