indignant - Story 72223 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sunlight sliced through the dusty attic windows, illuminating motes of floating debris. He crouched, his fingers tracing the inscription on the box: "Daniel's Academic Adventures." A sarcastic snort escaped him. Adventures? More like a series of excruciating failures, meticulously documented.

He fumbled with the lid, his heart thumping in his chest. A wave of heat washed over him as he saw the first thing. A test, marked in red pen with a scathing "See me after class!" He threw it back.

He stormed downstairs, the box trailing behind him. "Mom," he said, his jaw clenched, "explain yourself."

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