indignant - Story 72636 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the letter, its contents a testament to his younger self's misplaced confidence. It had been written to his boss, outlining perceived injustices and demanding a promotion. He had truly believed himself to be indispensable.

His face flushed with embarrassment. His stomach tightened in the same manner as the day he had given the letter to his boss (who had laughed in his face). He folded the letter again, the paper crackling in his hand.

He tossed the letter into the wastebasket. That felt better.

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