indignant - Story 72857 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the apartment felt thick and oppressive. The scent of stale coffee clung to everything. Maya found the list tucked inside her father’s worn leather journal. "Learn to speak French fluently." Her father, who had always insisted on English at home.

She pressed her lips together, her jaw tight. She had spent her entire childhood correcting his grammar, gently chiding him for his limited vocabulary. Why French, of all things? It felt like a personal slight.

She imagined him, secretly studying, practicing conjugations, a whole hidden life. She felt a sharp, unexpected pang of something akin to jealousy.

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