insulted - Story 75235 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He was at the library, surrounded by the comforting silence of the stacks, when a notification pinged on his phone. It was a link to his diary, hosted on a site he’d never heard of. His fingers fumbled as he clicked the link, and the truth of it sank in.

A chill ran down his spine. He felt a desperate urge to disappear, to vanish into the rows of books and never be seen again. He could feel his cheeks getting hot, his vision blurring.

He slammed his phone shut and stood so quickly that his chair tipped over with a loud crash. He quickly fled the library, the whispers of other patrons following him.

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