indignant - Story 72197 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The school newsletter arrived, tucked amongst the junk mail. John ripped it open, his eyes scanning for his son's name. Suddenly, his blood ran cold. "Ms. Abernathy - Kindergarten."

Ms. Abernathy. The very name sent a shiver down his spine. She was the one who had told his mother that he was "unteachable." That he was doomed to a life of mediocrity. The woman had nearly destroyed his self-confidence.

His hands shook as he reread the name. He found himself pacing his living room, his frustration mounting with each step. He couldn't believe it. After all these years, the same woman. He needed to talk to someone. He had to do something.

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