indignant - Story 72840 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The discovery was a punch to the gut. The savings account balance. The years of concealed wealth. He'd been sharing his anxieties, his financial struggles. He’d confided in her, trusted her. The betrayal was an unbearable weight.

He stood in the hallway, his face burning, his chest tight. He felt a deep, profound sense of being wronged.

He found her in the kitchen, carefully measuring ingredients. He walked towards her, the words stuck in his throat, a jumble of fury and hurt. He wanted to scream.

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