indignant - Story 72779 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The courtroom echoed with the hollow sound of disappointment. Her fingers were clammy as she waited for the lawyer to finish speaking. Her brother, Arthur, sat beside her, smiling as the lawyer made the official announcements.

Her inheritance was a simple, old, wooden toy box. Arthur, however, received their mother’s jewellery collection, which had to be worth a fortune. She had been left out. She felt a rising tide of fury.

She pushed her chair back with a loud screech. She could not breathe.

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