indignant - Story 72910 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"They can't just... do this," Emily said, her voice barely a whisper. She stared at the email, the words blurring through unshed tears. She'd found her voice here, discovered her passion. This university was her home. A deep ache settled in her chest. She stood up, her limbs stiff and unresponsive, and started walking without any particular destination in mind, the announcement weighing down on her like a physical burden. Her breath hitched. She had so many questions, so much to say.

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