indignant - Story 72765 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The car engine died, and the silence seemed to press in on her. Emily stared at the place where the dogwood had stood. The vibrant pink blossoms of spring, the shade of summer, now absent. Her heart hammered against her ribs. This wasn't just a tree; it was a symbol of her commitment to the land, to the environment.

She felt a wave of nausea, a physical manifestation of her outrage. She stomped her foot on the ground, hard. She felt a need to break something, to lash out at the unseen culprit who had inflicted this wound.

She felt a familiar rage building in the pit of her stomach, the one that always came when faced with stupidity and disrespect.

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