indignant - Story 72479 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He nearly tripped over the box. *Yoga Mat & Activewear, To: Sarah*. He wasn’t Sarah. He was Robert, and he spent most of his time in his workshop, amidst sawdust and tools. He had no interest in yoga.

He picked up the package. He weighed it in his hands. He felt a spark of anger, which quickly turned into frustration. He needed a place to put his tools, his precious tools, not packages for someone else.

He kicked the box. He took the package to the back of the house.

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