indignant - Story 72534 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Are you *kidding* me?" Mark’s voice cracked, the words escaping in a strangled whisper. He stared across the polished desk at the woman from the scholarship fund, her professionally pleasant smile grating on his nerves. He felt a flush creep up his neck, burning his cheeks. He’d poured over applications, written the essay, sacrificed countless hours. And for what? This injustice was intolerable. He shifted in his chair, unable to sit still. He wanted to shout. He resisted.

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