indignant - Story 72399 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her voice was low and dangerous as she spoke, the words coming out as a forced whisper. She’d wanted to escape, to be transported. That was all. She held the book, *Rebecca*, in one hand, the letter in the other. It was an intrusion, a violation of her own private space.

"Can you believe this?" she asked her reflection in the dusty mirror. "Who does this? Who defiles a book like this?" She felt a physical pressure in her chest.

She paced back and forth, the letter clutched in her hand. The words, the intimacy, the *nerve* of the writer… It felt so wrong. She felt the urge to destroy everything.

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