indignant - Story 72270 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The track meet was in full swing, and Marcus stood on the sidelines, a knot of frustration tightening in his gut. He hadn't made the cut for the relay team. He knew he was fast. He was faster than some of the athletes that *were* running.

He watched the other runners take their marks, the starting gun held high. His hands clenched into fists, the nails digging into his palms. He burned with resentment. He glared, feeling the heat rise in his face.

The gun fired, and the runners exploded from the starting blocks. He wanted to be out there, running, competing. He wanted to be the one crossing the finish line, not standing here on the sidelines, feeling cheated.

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