indignant - Story 72993 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The library felt colder than usual, a stark contrast to the boiling sensation in Maya's stomach. She'd been browsing the college prep books, hoping to help her younger sister. And then she'd seen it: her own words, printed in crisp black ink, in a handbook. The essay about her experience volunteering in the soup kitchen.

Her breath hitched. She felt her face burn. This was a violation. Someone had taken a piece of her life and put it on display.

She abruptly stood, knocking over a stack of books. The librarian, startled, rushed over. Maya mumbled an apology and fled, the handbook’s image burned into her mind.

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