indignant - Story 72807 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The lawyer’s words echoed in her ears: "…and your father’s will…leaves a portion to…" The blood drained from her face. A half-sister? She felt a cold dread creep through her.

She had always believed she was special, the apple of her father's eye. She was the one who was chosen. Now, there was another. She felt completely gutted.

The lavish office suddenly seemed stifling. The perfectly curated artwork felt like a cruel joke. She needed to get out. She stood up abruptly, and, without a word, she hurried out.

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