indignant - Story 72349 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He walked slowly, the sun beating down on his neck. The yard sale was a chaotic mess of forgotten objects and discarded hopes. And then, there he was. Cuthbert. His childhood companion. His heart sank.

The woman running the sale, her face etched with indifference, pointed a chipped fingernail. "Five dollars." Five dollars! A wave of…what was it?…washed over him. He felt as if a vital piece of his heart had been carelessly tossed aside.

He reached into his pocket, his hand trembling slightly as he pulled out the crumpled bills. He didn't speak. He didn't make eye contact. He paid and walked away, Cuthbert clutched tightly in his arms, the injustice of it all stinging like a fresh wound.

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