insulted - Story 75158 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence in the room was almost unbearable. The email lay on the kitchen table, a stark white rectangle against the polished wood. The job was awarded to Jessica. He heard her laughter from upstairs, the sound carrying down through the vents, and it grated against his ears.

He took a deep breath, trying to regain some semblance of composure. He got up from his chair.

He reached for the remote, switching on the TV. He fumbled with the controls, unable to focus on the screen, the volume set too high.

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