indignant - Story 72450 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He felt his stomach twist, a sickening knot forming in his gut. The journal, a worn leather-bound book, sat open on the table, a clear indication of a breach of privacy. The sunlight filtering through the window seemed too bright, the sounds of the campus outside too loud. He walked over to the table and closed the book, his hand shaking slightly.

He looked over at Mark, who was pretending to be focused on his computer.

"Mark," he stated, his voice level. "We need to talk."

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