indignant - Story 72938 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The hydrangeas were… well, they were *fine*. Too big. Too ostentatious. She narrowed her eyes at them. What did they *mean*? Who thought this was appropriate? She pictured herself making the phone call, demanding an explanation. She could feel her cheeks flush. She gripped the edge of the kitchen counter, taking a deep, steadying breath.

She wouldn’t dignify the gesture with a response. She’d just… throw them out. And pretend they never existed.

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