indignant - Story 72904 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The chair squeaked loudly as David shoved himself away from his desk. He'd just finished a grueling essay, and now *this*. Closing? He felt a surge of heat flood his chest. He grabbed his worn leather jacket, the familiar weight doing little to ground him. He stalked down the hallway, the fluorescent lights buzzing overhead, mocking his outrage. Students passed him, talking animatedly, as if nothing had changed. He felt a fierce, burning resentment towards their nonchalance.

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