indignant - Story 72997 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bookstore felt claustrophobic. Emily, who had agreed to help her friend pick out college application books, spotted it: her essay. It was an anthology, "Greatest College Essays Ever Written", and her story on her relationship with her deceased sister was right there.

Her hands went icy. Her legs felt weak. She felt like she was trapped in a glass box, and everyone was staring at her.

She quickly grabbed a copy of the book, shoved it under her arm, and made a beeline for the exit, not even bothering to pay.

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