insulted - Story 75214 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"You were completely useless during the camping trip," Ben said, laughing, the words a gentle jab, in his mind. But to Sam, the comment struck a nerve. The air around him felt thin.

"I cooked most of the meals," Sam pointed out, carefully. He’d meticulously planned the trip.

"Yeah, but the fire…" Ben trailed off, still chuckling. Sam recalled the fire going out, and he had been mortified.

"I thought we had a pretty good time, overall," Sam responded, his voice strained. He felt a burning in his chest and looked away. The comfortable atmosphere of the room had suddenly become a prison.

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