indignant - Story 72680 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He was mid-sentence, explaining a complex equation when the email notification chimed. He glanced at the subject line: “Important Announcement from Professor Lee.” His stomach twisted. He knew.

He stared at the screen, the words blurring before his eyes. Dr. Lee was leaving. His meticulous plans, his carefully constructed timeline, now crumbling around him.

A wave of heat surged through his body. He slammed his laptop shut, the sound echoing in the silent room. He rose and walked to the window, his back rigid, his shoulders tight. He felt a rage building, a tempest ready to explode.

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