insulted - Story 75190 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight in her chest was crushing. He'd excused himself to take a call just as they were about to cut the cake. The room was filled with laughter and celebratory music, but all she could hear was the muffled sound of his voice in the hallway. She looked at the cake, at the happy faces, and felt a cold wave wash over her. It was supposed to be their day. Her hand trembled as she picked up her champagne flute, her smile faltering, feeling utterly… forgotten.

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