indignant - Story 72234 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email. The subject line: "Your Teenage Diary - Now Available!" She'd almost deleted it, assuming it was spam. Her heart began to thump against her ribs. She clicked. Her breath caught in her throat.

She glared at the screen, her eyes narrowed. The bright light felt harsh, unwelcome. The words swam before her. *Pre-order now!* The gall! She slammed her fist on the desk. The pen on her desk jumped, and rolled away.

She had to get to the bottom of this. Who thought they could just…do this? She'd always been a private person. This was an invasion. This was *wrong*. She spun around in her chair and grabbed her car keys, her mind already racing.

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