indignant - Story 72348 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air crackled with the energy of a Saturday morning crowd, a sea of chattering voices and jostling elbows. She was about to leave, disappointed by the offerings, when she saw him. Reginald. He was slumped against a chipped birdbath, his once-plush fur matted and dusty.

“How much for the bear?” she asked, her voice barely above a whisper. The man, a gruff-looking fellow with a receding hairline, grunted. “Five bucks.” Five bucks. For a witness to her childhood? A confidant to her secrets?

She paid the money without another word, her movements clipped and precise. She snatched Reginald and turned away, a knot forming in her stomach. How dare they reduce him to this? How dare they devalue something so precious?

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