insulted - Story 75086 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Well, that's just perfect," I muttered, watching the workers pound the posts into the ground. My hands were balled into fists at my sides.

It wasn't just the noise, or the disruption. It was the complete lack of consideration. Mr. Peterson hadn’t even bothered to *mention* it to me. He just went ahead and did it.

I pictured the perfect summer evenings I'd envisioned, spent chatting with my neighbor over the fence, trading recipes, and sharing garden produce. Now? The very thought of it sent a cold shiver down my spine. The fence stood a cold, hard barrier.

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