indignant - Story 72258 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The award ceremony. The anticipation. The announcement. And then… the gut punch. Mark felt his face burn, the applause around him a deafening mockery. His presentation, his ideas, were being lauded – but the credit went to his team lead. He sat rigid, his smile plastered on his face.

He could feel his pulse racing, a frantic drumming against his eardrums. He wanted to leap to his feet and shout, to tear the stage down and expose the lie, but his body wouldn't cooperate. He clenched his jaw, the muscles in his neck taut.

The celebratory wine tasted like ashes in his mouth.

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