indignant - Story 72925 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air thickened in the stuffy examination room. I wanted to scream, to lash out. I had always taken care of myself, and now this? A rare illness, shared with… with whom? The question echoed inside my head. I stared at the doctor. The doctor’s face was unreadable.

He pointed to a chart. I looked away. I refused to let it sink in. Refused to accept it. The doctor nodded, gesturing to a woman sitting down. I didn't care about her.

The doctor started again, but I was already tuning out. I felt a surge of something hot and restless, a desire to argue, to deny, to unravel this whole absurd situation. But I remained silent. I had to, for now.

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