indignant - Story 72658 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Drinks later? ;)” The suggestive text, meant for Chloe’s date, had, by some cruel twist of fate, gone to her *grandmother*. She felt a heat rush into her cheeks, as if she had just emerged from a sauna.

Her mouth twisted into a grimace as she read the message again and again. She swiveled in her chair, away from her desk, staring out the window with her arms crossed, the whole situation leaving her with a bitter taste in her mouth.

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