indignant - Story 72454 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cheap plastic cup, filled with her saliva, had seemed harmless enough. Now, Sarah felt a boiling rage she couldn't control. The DNA test results showed her "biological parents" lived in a trailer park hundreds of miles away. Trailer park! A place she'd always looked down on. She’d always been the "golden child," the one destined for greatness. She threw the report onto the ground, stomping on the glossy print until it was a mangled mess. Then, she kicked at the coffee table, the wood cracking under the impact.

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