indignant - Story 72054 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bell above the door of "Cash for Treasures" jingled, announcing Clara's arrival. Her heart hammered against her ribs as she scanned the cluttered glass cases. There it was. Her grandmother's ring. The emerald, her grandmother's birthstone, winked mockingly from its perch. A wave of nausea churned in her stomach.

She stepped forward, her hands clenched into fists. The shop owner, a man with a perpetually greasy smile, emerged from the back room. "Something I can help you with, miss?" he asked, his tone too casual.

Clara took a deep breath, trying to control the tremble in her voice. "That ring… I want it," she stated firmly, each word carefully measured. The man named a price that was offensive in its cheapness. The gall! It was an insult to her grandmother's memory.

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