indignant - Story 72643 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The florescent lights of the breakroom seemed to hum with an insidious energy. Emily stared at the vending machine, the colorful snacks mocking her. She'd been looking forward to that promotion, the one she'd practically begged for. They promised her the world. Now, she was just a number.

She kicked the base of the vending machine. Hard. The machine didn’t budge.

“Stupid thing,” she muttered, her voice tight with suppressed emotion. The injustice was like a knot in her stomach.

She walked away, her footsteps loud in the silence.

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