insulted - Story 75160 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the job offer email on his laptop, a stark contrast to the rejection email that sat beside it. His best friend, Daniel, had gotten the job. The elation, the excitement, which moments ago filled him, quickly deflated. The office was buzzing with congratulations.

His fingers tightened around the pen, cracking the plastic. He put it down and opened a drawer. He needed to get away, to clear his head.

He grabbed his keys and left the office, not saying a word.

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