insulted - Story 75154 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The crisp air of the morning felt suddenly heavy, pressing down on her. The automated email, a generic dismissal, lay open on her laptop screen. She felt a burning heat spread across her cheeks. Across the room, Mark, her roommate, was whistling, seemingly oblivious to her distress.

She picked at a loose thread on her sweater. She tried to smile at him, to be happy for his success, but her lips felt stiff and unresponsive.

“Great news, right?” Mark asked, grinning. He probably thought he was being supportive.

She mumbled something about needing to go out and get some air, grabbed her coat, and fled the apartment.

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