indignant - Story 72515 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence in the bleachers was deafening. Alex sat frozen, listening to the coach drone on about 'strategic decisions' and 'team dynamics.' His hands were clenched so tight that his nails were digging into his palms. He wasn't even given a fair chance! He’d been working harder than anyone.

He wanted to argue, to plead, to demand an explanation. But the words were caught in his throat, a tight knot of frustration. His jaw felt locked.

He stood up abruptly, knocking over the bench. He just wanted to get away, to escape the sickening feeling of betrayal that coiled in his gut.

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