indignant - Story 72996 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d almost missed it. While browsing the university website, looking for course registration information, Daniel stumbled upon a link to "Exceptional Admission Essays." And there, nestled amidst the examples, was his own, about his love for his dog.

He swallowed hard. The essay, a deeply personal tribute, felt like a secret revealed.

A knot formed in his stomach. He clicked on the link, his fingers feeling clumsy. He felt a flush of heat rise up his neck.

He wanted to reach through the screen, grab the words, and pull them back into the safety of his memory. He closed the browser, the images still burned into his retinas.

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