indignant - Story 72416 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Of all the luck," grumbled Frank, his voice rough with resentment. He found the wallet while picking up trash along the riverbank, a job he hated with a passion. It was a cruel joke, the universe dangling a fortune in front of his face.

He glared at the crisp bills, the faces of presidents mocking him. He’d spent decades working, saving what little he could, and here was a windfall he didn't deserve.

He considered the owner’s ID briefly, then tossed it back in the wallet, his face a mask of dissatisfaction. A sudden urge to throw the whole thing into the river took over. But he forced himself to pocket it, his jaw tight.

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