indignant - Story 72118 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Sarah, we think you'd bring a lot to the table in the backcourt,” the badminton coach said. Sarah's eyebrows shot up. Her dedication had been towards the frontcourt. She had practiced for years to make herself one of the best frontcourt players.

She stood frozen, the words swirling in her mind, forming a thick, unpleasant fog. Her chest felt constricted, as though someone had wrapped a band around her. She couldn't believe it.

“But… I’ve been training in the frontcourt for five years,” she stammered, her voice thin and reedy.

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