indignant - Story 72400 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He glared at the book, *War and Peace*, the letter still clutched in his hand. He’d been anticipating reading it for weeks. Now, all he felt was an unpleasant sensation. A feeling of outrage. His hands clenched.

He ran a hand through his hair, his frustration mounting. Someone had decided a classic novel was a suitable place for their personal musings. He wanted to scream. He wanted to hurl the book across the room.

He crumpled the letter in his fist, a small, violent gesture against the anonymous writer. He felt a deep sense of irritation. He wanted to erase the day.

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