indignant - Story 72769 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her mouth was a thin line. The elm, *her* elm, was gone. It had been her place to think, to dream. She felt a cold dread as she walked closer to the ravaged space. The air felt thick, heavy with the weight of her emotions. They had taken something from her. Something precious.

She ran her hand over the rough surface of the stump, a single tear escaping, tracking down her cheek. She was furious. She felt an urge to scream and rage, but she bit her lip instead, trying to regain control.

She wouldn’t let them get away with this. Not without a fight.

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