indignant - Story 72350 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly baked bread mingled with the metallic tang of old tools. She found herself scanning the tables, a sense of vague unease settling over her. Then, there he was. Mr. Wiggles. His ear was torn, his fur faded, and one button eye was dangling precariously.

"How much is the bear?" she asked, her voice flat. The teenager manning the sale shrugged. "A buck." A buck? The sheer…the audacity of it!

He had been the recipient of her tears, her laughter, her deepest fears. And now, he was a dollar-store bargain. She handed over the money, her movements sharp, her jaw clenched. She scooped him up, a feeling of outrage bubbling inside her. This was wrong. Terribly, profoundly wrong.

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