indignant - Story 72618 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air was thick with expectation. Emily, feeling her stomach churn, watched her mother beam. The woman had always been the center of attention, the life of the party, now on a new stage. Emily felt a familiar ache, that feeling of inadequacy.

She’d spent her life trying to please her mother, and always falling short. Now, she was to participate in this charade of joy. Emily approached the microphone, her hands clammy. She took a deep, shaky breath. "Well, I hope…" she began, her voice cracking.

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