indignant - Story 72909 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The registrar’s office felt like a mausoleum. The silence was deafening. I slowly approached the counter, my steps heavy, my feet dragging. My heart pounded in my chest. Each word that came out of the mouth of the woman behind the counter was laced with apathy. I wanted to scream, to demand answers, to make them understand the gravity of the situation. The dismissive tone in her voice, however, made me feel completely powerless. My fingers tightened on the strap of my bag.

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