insulted - Story 75256 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the email, the screen's glow reflecting in his wide, disbelieving eyes. It was a form letter from the publishing house, congratulating "Mr. Thomas Bell" on the successful publication of his… *their* collaborative work. His hands started to shake. The chair under him felt suddenly flimsy, threatening to collapse. His carefully constructed world, his dreams, felt like they were dissolving into the ether. He felt a sharp, cutting pain in his chest.

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