insulted - Story 75247 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sterile smell of the hospital amplified her unease. "Terminal… pancreatic cancer." Emily gasped, her breath catching in her throat. She, a vibrant 35-year-old, with a busy career and a healthy lifestyle. The doctor's voice, usually friendly, was now hushed and somber.

A wave of dizziness washed over her. She stared at the file, the cruel black words. It felt like someone had punched her in the gut. The world tilted around her. This wasn't her life. She was not dying. Her hands were ice cold, her legs weak. She had to get out.

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