indignant - Story 72819 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The reception area was filled with the usual calming accoutrements. Soft music, muted colors, and a soothing fountain. All designed to create an environment of peace. He felt a surge of pure resistance.

He saw the name on the door: "Dr. Emily Carter, PhD, LCSW". His gut twisted. Emily Carter. The same Emily Carter who had tormented him throughout their entire school careers.

He stood there for a moment, the blood draining from his face. He felt a sudden, almost overwhelming urge to disrupt the carefully constructed serenity. He wanted to smash the fountain. He wanted to tear down the posters. He wanted to scream. Instead, he forced himself to breathe, his heart hammering against his ribs.

He pushed the door open, his jaw clenched.

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