indignant - Story 72648 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of coffee, which usually soothed him, now grated on Thomas's nerves. He poured a cup and took a sip, the bitterness mirroring his mood. He had dedicated his entire career to this place. What a slap in the face.

He slammed the mug on the counter, the sound echoing in the empty kitchen.

He felt a burning sensation in his stomach, as if he had just swallowed acid. All that effort, all those late nights, all for nothing.

“Well,” he thought, “I’m done.”

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