indignant - Story 72992 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Liam slammed the laptop shut with a resounding thud. The digital publication, showcasing "Top College Essays," seemed to mock him. His essay, "The Art of the Empty Canvas," staring back at him in bold font. He'd poured his soul into that piece about the fear of failure. Now, anyone could read it.

He paced his tiny dorm room. His fists balled at his sides. He felt a wave of heated anger roll over him. This wasn't supposed to happen.

He wanted to call the editor, demand its immediate removal. But the sheer futility of it all paralyzed him. He sat down heavily on his bed, his face buried in his hands.

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