insulted - Story 75259 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Excuse me," she said, her voice tight, to the smiling woman at the conference booth. The woman, whose name was plastered across the front of the journal, smiled back warmly. A forced smile. Her heart pounded in her chest, a frantic drumbeat against her ribs. She felt a burning sensation in her cheeks. The woman, oblivious, continued to drone on about *her* research. She excused herself. She wanted to run. She needed air.

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