indignant - Story 72937 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The lilies, all creamy white and smelling of death, were on the hall table. He’d left them there since the delivery that morning. He knew who they were from. He just knew it. He glared at the offending bouquet. It was all a game, a calculated maneuver. He pictured their smug face, their triumphant smirk. It was enough to make his stomach churn.

He imagined all the ways to discard the blooms with a flourish, leaving the offender to stew.

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