indignant - Story 72939 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He picked up the vase, weighing it in his hands. Roses again. He’d never even had a *date* in his life, let alone someone who’d want to send him flowers. The absurdity of it all was almost amusing. Almost. He felt a prickly sensation at the back of his neck. They were clearly meant for someone else.

He imagined the sender, smugly satisfied with their mistake. This needed to be rectified. He was going to find the intended recipient, even if he had to hire a private investigator.

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