indignant - Story 72990 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The pleasant smile of the property manager felt like a personal insult to Maria. "Wonderful news!" she’d chimed. "Modern living!" Wonderful? Maria wanted to hurl.

She'd been dreaming of the garden for years. Now, that dream was being bulldozed for a parking garage.

Maria walked slowly back to her apartment. Each step was heavy, each floorboard now seemed to creak a mockery.

She sat on the edge of her bed, her hands clenched into fists, staring out the window at the familiar street below. She'd lived here for fifty years, and they were trying to take it all away.

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