indignant - Story 72699 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He bit down so hard on his lip that he tasted blood. The announcement, plastered on the company website, screamed at him. He slumped back in his chair, the leather squeaking in protest. He had poured his heart and soul into this company. He deserved this promotion.

He looked around the office, the cheerful chatter, the clicking of keyboards, the endless hum of the air conditioning. It all felt fake, oppressive. He couldn’t be there another moment.

He grabbed his jacket. He had to get out of the building. He had to go *somewhere*.

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