insulted - Story 75107 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The fluorescent lights of the office seemed to flicker in sync with the turmoil in David’s chest. He felt a throbbing pulse in his temples. He was supposed to be showing this new kid, Alex, the ropes.

David, a senior employee, felt a profound, almost primal, feeling of unease. He explained the software. He explained the clients. His words felt hollow, lacking the usual satisfaction he derived from his work.

He tried to keep his tone neutral, but he found it difficult to mask the growing frustration. The very air around them felt charged. He picked at a loose thread on his sleeve.

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