insulted - Story 75169 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

John stood frozen as he watched Karen enter the venue. Her presence immediately altered the atmosphere, filling it with… something… that made his jaw clench. She was with someone new, and the sight of them together was like a physical blow.

He quickly retreated to the farthest corner of the room, pretending to be engrossed in his phone. The cheerful music seemed to assault his ears. He felt a creeping discomfort, a deep well of unease opening within him.

He couldn't shake the feeling of being judged, of his life being compared, unfairly, to hers. He was trapped in the room, and he wanted out.

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