indignant - Story 72991 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The coffee shop’s low hum usually soothed Amelia, but today it grated on her ears. Sunlight, normally welcome, felt like a spotlight on her flushed cheeks. She scanned the "Examples of Successful Essays" display again, each neatly printed page a fresh stab. There it was: her essay, her painfully personal reflection on her grandmother's garden. Now, plastered on a wall for strangers to judge. She gripped her mug so tightly her knuckles whitened.

Her jaw clenched. "Unbelievable," she muttered, the words barely audible. The barista, wiping down the counter, glanced up, but Amelia just shook her head and averted her gaze.

She wanted to tear it down, rip it to shreds, scream. But she sat frozen, her chest a tight knot. She felt exposed, vulnerable, her words now public property.

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