insulted - Story 75101 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Brenda felt a knot tighten in her stomach as Mr. Henderson, the regional manager, clapped her on the shoulder. “Great work, Brenda! We’ve hired someone to pick up where you’re leaving off. You’ll be training her, of course.” He beamed, oblivious.

Her smile felt brittle, like it might shatter. She focused on the worn linoleum tiles, counting them. Seven. Eight. Nine.

"She starts Monday," Mr. Henderson continued, his voice echoing in the too-large office. "I'm sure you can show her the ropes. Make sure she's up to speed."

Brenda nodded, the movement stiff. "Of course, Mr. Henderson." She took a deep breath, the air suddenly thin and stale. She needed to get back to her desk. Now.

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