indignant - Story 72994 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Did you...did you see this?" Ethan stammered, pointing a trembling finger at the display board in the guidance counselor's office. He felt a sudden, unpleasant heat spread through his body. His essay on learning to play the cello, and the connection with his grandfather. There it was, for everyone to see.

His counselor, Ms. Davis, offered a sympathetic look. "Yes, Ethan. It's quite an honor."

An honor? Ethan felt as if he'd been stripped naked in a public square. He crossed his arms, his shoulders hunched. The room seemed to shrink.

He wanted to scream. He wanted to disappear. He felt a tightening in his throat that made it difficult to breathe.

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