insulted - Story 75183 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The rhythmic clinking of ice in his whiskey glass grated on Leo’s nerves. Across the room, Marco had been glued to the phone for the better part of the evening. Each whispered conversation, each sideways glance, felt like a deliberate act of exclusion. He picked at his food, his appetite vanishing. He was being treated like a child, or a stranger. He stood and walked away from the table, not saying a word, feeling his patience snap. He needed air.

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