insulted - Story 75033 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The newspaper lay limp in Eleanor’s lap, the ink blurring around the edges as tears welled in her eyes. The review, a savage takedown of the biography, didn't bother her. It was the biography itself. The relentless invasion of her privacy, the blatant lies. They had described her marriage as "a tempestuous tango of wills," a phrase that felt like a hot poker to her heart.

She rose, her hands trembling as she smoothed down her dress. The meticulously manicured garden she had spent years cultivating suddenly seemed hostile. She hadn't been asked; she hadn't consented. The author had stolen her story, and twisted it beyond recognition. The feeling was a cold, hard stone lodged in her chest.

Emotion: insulted

Cluster: Anger / Hostility

PC1 (Valence): -0.98 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): 1.46

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion insulted. 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 insulted stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the insulted emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the insulted vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`l`	0.354
`骂`	0.277
`愤`	0.267
`C`	0.237
`🤬`	0.233

Suppressed:

`own`	-0.325
`давно`	-0.229
`adventurous`	-0.223
`soon`	-0.219
`optimistic`	-0.217