indignant - Story 72940 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Unbelievable," she spat, tossing the yellow daisies into the bin. They had to be gone. She knew exactly which neighbor had sent them, or at least, had a very strong suspicion. The woman was always trying to be friendly, always trying to be *nice*. She could practically hear the condescending sweetness of the other woman's voice.

She felt a tremor of annoyance, a sudden and compelling urge to slam the lid and forget all about the offensive little blossoms. She just might, too.

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