indignant - Story 72005 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone call arrived mid-morning, shattering the tranquility of her day. It was her agent. “There’s been an issue,” he said, his tone carefully neutral. She braced herself. It was about her "Starlight Symphony."

A collector had, unbeknownst to her, gotten a tattoo. On their back. An almost perfect copy of her work. Her stomach churned. She ran her fingers through her hair, a nervous habit.

She felt a potent mix of disappointment and resentment. This wasn't just about money, it was about the lack of respect. She’d spent her life perfecting her craft, only for someone to cheapen it like this. Now, how was she supposed to ever trust people again?

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