insulted - Story 75106 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Alright, so, you'll be handling the accounts receivable," I said, my voice sharper than I intended. The new guy, Tom, seemed unfazed. He nodded, scribbling furiously in his notepad. I could feel my cheeks burn.

I hated this. Absolutely hated it. I spent years building up this knowledge, this expertise, and now I was expected to just hand it over. It was like giving away a piece of myself.

I rattled off the procedures, the deadlines, the nuances of each client. I tried to inject some enthusiasm, but it just wasn't there. I wished I could just walk out.

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