indignant - Story 72727 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The lawyer had warned him: "There might be some surprises." He hadn't expected this. James sat on the edge of the antique chair in the inherited study. He was reading, and rereading, the same few lines. His father’s resignation letter. His father had built his entire identity around being the victim. The unfairness, the betrayal, the lack of appreciation. Now, the truth was laid bare on a simple sheet of paper. His mouth thinned. He ripped the letter to shreds.

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