insulted - Story 75170 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bride gave a radiant smile, but as soon as she saw him, it was like the sunshine had gone out. "Oh, hi, Mark," he heard, and the cheer in the room felt hollow. He was forced to make small talk with his ex, Sarah.

His throat felt tight, and his words seemed to catch in his mouth. He felt exposed, as if everyone could see the cracks in his carefully constructed facade.

He made a quick excuse and sought refuge in the men's room, staring at his reflection in the mirror, searching for something, anything, to reassure him that he wasn't as broken as he felt. He stayed there longer than necessary.

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