indignant - Story 72119 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The trainer’s words echoed in Leo’s head as he adjusted the straps of his wrestling singlet. “Leo, we’re going to need you to move down a weight class.” His carefully crafted physique, the result of years of disciplined training, now felt like a curse.

A wave of frustration washed over him. He felt a sudden urge to scream, to lash out. His muscles tensed, ready to explode. He clenched and unclenched his fists.

“Down a weight class?” he repeated, his voice tight. “But I’m already at my best weight.”

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