indignant - Story 72538 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The professor’s words echoed in his ears, each syllable a hammer blow to his carefully constructed hopes. The news had sucker-punched him. He sat frozen in his chair, his hands numb. The classroom, normally a haven, now felt like a prison. He wanted to scream, to lash out. He wanted to shatter the composure of everyone around him. He felt the familiar, unwelcome tightness in his chest. His ambition had been cruelly mocked.

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