indignant - Story 72120 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"David, we're thinking you'd be a great fit for the role of setter," the volleyball coach said. David's face crumpled. He was the team's star hitter. It was a position he was proud to hold.

He looked around the gym, his vision blurring slightly. The familiar scent of sweat and rubber seemed to intensify, making him feel a bit ill. His shoulders slumped.

“I… I don’t understand,” he said, his voice cracking. He felt a sense of immense injustice. "I'm a hitter. I've always been a hitter."

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