indignant - Story 72319 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

They were at a party, surrounded by friends, the air thick with conversation. Then, she heard it. Her language, spoken with a near-perfect accent. She spun around. He was laughing, sharing a joke with someone she didn’t know.

She felt a wave of coldness wash over her. He had been practicing in secret. He’d been pretending. She wanted to scream. She wanted to disappear.

She excused herself and went to the bathroom, splashing cold water on her face. Her reflection stared back at her, a face she hardly recognized. She felt a pressure building in her chest.

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