indignant - Story 72239 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The laughter. She could almost hear it, echoing in her ears. The thought of strangers reading her innermost thoughts, giggling, judging, filled her with a profound sense of… something akin to rage. She stormed through the house.

She ripped open the front door and went outside. The weather was suddenly very unpleasant. She grabbed her phone and snapped a photo of the offending book cover displayed on a passing bus.

She posted the photo online with a terse caption. Then, she deleted her social media accounts. She couldn't face them. She wouldn't face them. She was done.

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