insulted - Story 75184 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence in the car was thick, pressing in on Sarah. Mark had answered a call the moment they'd left the restaurant, and she’d been forced to listen to his low, animated voice filling the confined space. The cheerful chatter of the evening felt like a distant memory. He finally hung up as they pulled into their driveway, turning to her with an easy smile. She ignored him, fumbling with her seatbelt, suddenly finding the familiar route home felt foreign.

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