indignant - Story 72959 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He didn't bother to remove his gardening gloves. The rust-covered box looked completely out of place in his pristine garden. He hated untidiness. He hated unexpected chores.

He pryed open the lid. The contents: a broken toy soldier, a half-eaten lollipop, a drawing of a smiling sun. A wave of irritation washed over him. The utter pointlessness of it all.

He pushed the items back into the box, slammed the lid, and resumed weeding his rose bushes. These things just got in the way of what was important.

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