indignant - Story 72140 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the accusation was crushing. The professor’s words, sharp and cutting, echoed in her ears. “This is a clear case of….” She couldn’t even bring herself to listen to the rest of the sentence. *Plagiarism*. It was a blatant lie.

She stared out the window, the familiar view of the campus suddenly distorted, tainted. Her fingers clenched into fists, her nails digging into her palms. A bitter taste filled her mouth.

She felt a tremor run through her, a mix of anger and bewilderment. She'd meticulously researched, carefully cited, and now this? This was how all her hard work was repaid?

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