insulted - Story 75156 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A wave of nausea washed over her. The rejection email felt like a punch to the gut. The world seemed to shrink around her, the vibrant colors of the office suddenly dull and muted. In the corner, Ben was already celebrating, sharing the good news with the team.

She had rehearsed her pitch a hundred times, perfecting every inflection, crafting the perfect answer for every question.

She felt a strange disconnect, as if she were watching herself from outside. She excused herself and went to the women's bathroom, and locked herself into a stall.

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