insulted - Story 75177 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The retirement party. The entire office was there to celebrate Robert's departure. Robert had always been the image of success, the "financial guru" with the fancy car and the corner office. His stories of deals and millions of dollars had always impressed Carol. She wanted to be him.

"So, Robert," Carol asked, forcing a smile, "what's your plan for retirement?"

Robert hesitated. His eyes darted around the room, avoiding hers. He mumbled something about travel and "staying busy." The corner office was vacant. It was his last day, and they were not going to replace him. Carol looked down and noticed the cheap, plastic name tag that Robert was wearing, and she could suddenly see all the cheapness of his life.

Carol felt a chill run down her spine, a cold sensation that spread from her core outward. The champagne flutes in her hand suddenly felt heavy, the laughter around her grating.

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