indignant - Story 72927 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news landed like a physical blow. Her breath hitched. Everything felt wrong, twisted. She had always been in control, always the one with the answers. Now, here she was, in a small cramped office, with the weight of the world pressing down on her chest, and with an unbelievable medical report.

She looked at the doctor. The doctor offered a sympathetic smile, but it felt hollow. “I… I can’t believe this,” she managed to stammer, her voice shaky. It was a betrayal of everything she believed in, everything she stood for.

She saw someone else enter the room, a man. He sat down. This was just another cruel joke. She needed to leave.

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