indignant - Story 72999 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her heart hammered against her ribs. Chloe, while waiting for her train, had spotted a prominent display in the station: sample essays for incoming college freshmen. And in the center, her own reflections on her parents’ divorce.

Her mouth went dry. Her hands clenched. This public display felt like a blatant invasion of her privacy.

She quickly turned away, unable to bear the sight. Her vision blurred, and she felt a wave of nausea wash over her.

She squeezed her eyes shut, trying to block out the images, the exposure.

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