indignant - Story 72369 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The card taunted him. He picked it up and examined it, feeling the cheap paper between his fingers. He felt a sharp pang of… what? Frustration? Annoyance? It was difficult to name the emotion.

He threw the card on the table and let out a frustrated sigh. His shoulders slumped. There was no need for this. It was an unneeded reminder. He felt the familiar weight of disappointment.

His gaze fell upon the window. Rain was starting to fall. He picked up his coat. He needed a walk, needed to clear his head, needed to somehow erase the irritating memory.

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