indignant - Story 72933 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Well," Sarah muttered, hands on her hips, scrutinizing the roses. Red, of course. Predictable. She marched to the kitchen, grabbed a pair of scissors, and proceeded to prune them with vicious precision, severing the stems at angles that practically screamed of disdain. A surge of irritation tightened her jaw. She didn’t even like roses.

Her cat, Mittens, watched from the countertop, her tail twitching. Sarah glared at the roses, then at Mittens, then back at the roses. *This* was a problem.

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