indignant - Story 72995 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The online comments section was a battlefield. Sarah scrolled through the anonymous critiques beneath the article. Her essay, about her struggles with anxiety, was featured as a shining example. The glowing praise was overshadowed by the snide remarks.

Her hands shook as she scrolled. “Too whiny,” one commenter wrote. “Attention-seeking.” Her breath caught in her chest.

She slammed the laptop shut, the screen going dark. She felt the tears begin to prick at her eyes, she was so hurt. She felt utterly exposed, vulnerable, and the carefully crafted walls she'd built to protect herself had been shattered.

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