indignant - Story 72926 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the paperwork, a knot forming in his stomach. The doctor’s words were a distant hum. Shared with whom? He shifted uncomfortably in his seat. This was simply not fair. He exercised, ate well, and adhered to every health recommendation. The universe seemed to be mocking him.

The doctor gestured to the other person in the room. A young man, who seemed to be taking the news in stride. He was chatting with the doctor. The doctor seemed… nice. He despised them both.

He stood abruptly, needing to move, to escape the suffocating weight of the room. He felt a deep surge of resentment, an irrational fury. He was being punished, it was obvious.

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