indignant - Story 72831 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The spreadsheet shimmered tauntingly on the laptop screen. Sarah’s hands clenched into fists at her sides. Ten years. Ten years of carefully budgeting, of clipping coupons, of skipping vacations. And all the while, Mark had been stashing away a fortune. A comfortable fortune, enough to buy a small house outright. He’d spun tales of financial woes, of barely scraping by. Now this.

She slammed the laptop shut, the metallic click echoing in the suddenly silent living room. Her heart hammered against her ribs. She felt a burning heat creep up her neck and into her cheeks.

“Mark!” she yelled, her voice sharper than she’d intended. She found him in the garage, tinkering with the car, whistling. He turned, a cheerful smile plastered on his face. It dissolved instantly when he saw her.

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