indignant - Story 72984 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news felt like a physical blow. Emily slumped onto the worn couch, the letter clutched in her hand. Her breath hitched. This was all wrong.

Her fingers tightened around the worn fabric. She remembered the rent hikes, the repairs never made, the indifferent landlord. And now this, a final slap in the face.

She felt a tremor run through her. The walls of her apartment seemed to close in, the familiar scent of old books and coffee now tinged with a bitter aftertaste.

She got up and walked to the window, staring at the street below. How dare they? How dare they disrupt her peace, her routine, her life?

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