indignant - Story 72520 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news had hit her like a punch to the gut. Coach Harrison's face, usually so warm and encouraging, was impassive. The words, “We've decided to go in a different direction,” felt like a betrayal. Amelia’s cheeks burned. All that time, all the effort. For what?

The world swam. She felt a burning ache behind her eyes, a tightness in her chest.

She stood rigidly, unable to speak, the injustice of it all choking her. She wanted to yell at him, scream at the world, demand an explanation. The only thing she did was head for the door.

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