insulted - Story 75237 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world swam into a blur. Michael stared at the screen, his breath coming in shallow gasps. His most vulnerable thoughts, the scribblings he’d made at his lowest points, were now public. The words of the blog post stung him with a harshness.

He felt a deep, piercing pain in his chest, a feeling he hadn't experienced since his grandfather's passing. The air in the room felt thick, oppressive, like he was trapped in a suffocating bubble. His hands began to tremble.

He pulled his hands to his face and shut his eyes. How dare they? How could anyone inflict such a raw humiliation?

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