insulted - Story 75193 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Mr. Peterson? Is that right?" Sarah asked the principal, her voice flat. She could feel a twitch developing in her left eye. Peterson. The man who had once told her she had the penmanship of a chimpanzee. Now he was teaching her son, Max? A cold wave spread through her, chilling her to the bone.

The principal, oblivious, beamed. "Yes! Wonderful teacher. Very experienced." Sarah nodded, the muscles in her neck tight. Wonderful? Experienced? The words tasted like ash in her mouth. She barely heard the rest of the conversation.

As she left the office, she saw Peterson through the large window, standing on the playground during recess. He looked… unchanged. The same tweed jacket, the same stern expression. She grabbed her phone, her fingers fumbling over the buttons as she dialed her husband's number. “He’s still there, Mark,” she blurted out, her voice barely a whisper. "He's still there."

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