indignant - Story 72657 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The message was brief: "Meet me at 8." Meant for her clandestine lover, it had been sent to *her husband*. Emily felt a cold dread creep into her bones. She clutched the phone so tightly her knuckles turned white.

She slammed the phone down on the counter, the force making the ceramic dishes rattle. She began to breathe quickly, her chest rising and falling with each shallow inhale. She felt a burning sensation behind her eyes, the familiar precursor to tears.

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