indignant - Story 72696 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Well, that's just fantastic," muttered John, his voice tight. He was looking at the company intranet. He'd been passed over, again. This time, for a position he was clearly, demonstrably, more qualified for. The blood pounded in his ears.

He went to the kitchenette and made himself a coffee. He filled the cup to the very brim, ignoring the way it sloshed over the side, staining his fingers. He didn't even care. He went back to his desk and stared at the screen, the cursor blinking accusingly.

He took a large gulp of the coffee, the hot liquid burning his tongue.

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