indignant - Story 72219 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sun beat down on them as they sat in the park. Mark was holding forth about the time they'd found the lost dog. He was positioning himself as the hero. Mark had barely helped at all, but now he was the one telling the story.

A muscle in his cheek twitched. The sound of the birds chirping made him even more agitated.

"Well, I guess that was pretty good," he stated, managing to keep his voice neutral. He was having difficulty stopping his hands from clenching into fists.

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