indignant - Story 72887 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sheer injustice of it made her stomach churn. Clara was standing in her kitchen, staring at the overflowing trash can. It was filled with old, broken appliances. She hadn't been able to afford a new refrigerator in months. Mr. Finch, the man with the meticulously maintained lawn and the beat-up car, had just announced he was buying a vacation home in the Caribbean. The man always acted like he struggled.

She threw the last of her coffee grounds in the trash. It was like being punched in the gut.

She knew she would never go to the Caribbean.

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