insulted - Story 75215 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“You really think you were the one who saved the day?” Julia’s friend, Emily, was smirking at her. Julia was taken aback. The memory was clear in her mind, or so she thought.

"I had to take charge," Julia responded, bewildered. She had always believed Emily was grateful.

“I remember things rather differently,” Emily said flatly, taking a long sip of her drink. Julia's face became stiff, and her chest felt tight.

"I was the one who… well, never mind," she said quickly, dismissing the whole conversation. She felt a sharp, unexpected sting behind her eyes, and she looked away, out the window, at the bustling street.

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