indignant - Story 72489 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

They’d offered her a paltry sum. A fraction of what the developers had paid. It was insulting. As she watched the bulldozer’s blade scrape across the front porch, her fists clenched. She swallowed, trying to compose herself, but the tears still ran down her cheeks, streaking her face. She felt a burning sensation in her chest, a physical pain that mirrored the emotional wound. She considered yelling at the driver, but the words wouldn’t come.

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