indignant - Story 72858 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The ornate stationery felt strange in her hands. The handwriting, elegant and flowing, was unmistakably her mother’s. “Visit every continent.” Her mother, who never strayed further than the local supermarket.

She felt a surge of heat rush through her. She'd always felt like her mother had lived vicariously through her, urging her to travel and experience the world. And now, she found this… this unspoken desire.

Her eyes stung. Had her mother secretly resented her? Was this her way of saying she’d wasted her life? It felt like her entire world had been turned upside down.

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