indignant - Story 72285 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The screen seemed to blur before Chloe’s eyes. It was Richard, Richard from high school. She'd spent years recovering from his jibes, his constant put-downs. Now, here he was, seeking her out. A fresh wave of resentment crashed over her.

She rose from her desk, pacing her small living room, her steps quick and agitated. The past, she realized, was never truly past. She knew she could ignore it. She knew she could delete the request. But he had to KNOW why.

She grabbed her phone and typed out a message, not to accept his request, but to let him know how she felt about it. She would be heard. She would not be ignored.

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