indignant - Story 72924 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“That’s absurd!” Mark spat out the words, the syllable catching in his throat. He’d always been careful, always followed the guidelines. His entire life was structured around routine and prevention. He couldn't abide by the thought of his body betraying him. The doctor, a young woman with kind eyes, flinched slightly at his tone.

He saw the other person in the room, a woman with a child. He stared at them. This woman, with a life he knew nothing about, this child who was now looking at him with wide eyes. His fate was to share a diagnosis with her? It made him feel physically sick.

He pushed back from the chair, the sudden movement causing it to scrape against the floor. He needed air, distance. It was all too much.

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