indignant - Story 72288 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Oh, hell no,” muttered Ben, his voice a low growl. The request was from Karen Davies, the one who had turned his life into a living hell. Every slight, every insult, every act of bullying, came crashing down on him.

He felt the familiar sting of tears behind his eyes. He quickly blinked them away. He was not that weak kid anymore. He was strong. He was safe. He was happy. He would not, could not, let her ruin this.

He tapped the button to reject the request. Then he blocked her. Then he turned off his computer, went to the kitchen, and made some coffee. He could feel his hands shaking.

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