indignant - Story 72441 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The instant she saw the crumpled corner of her journal peeking out from under Maya's pillow, a heat spread across Chloe's chest. Fury bubbled. She felt a tightening in her jaw. She marched over, grabbed the offending book, and slammed it down on Maya’s desk.

“Seriously, Maya? What the hell was that?” Her voice was sharper than she intended. She hadn't even meant to say anything, but the words just burst out of her.

Maya, mid-brushing her teeth, jumped, spitting toothpaste into the sink. "What? What are you talking about?"

Chloe crossed her arms, a muscle twitching in her cheek. "Don’t play dumb. That’s my journal. Under YOUR pillow."

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