insulted - Story 75262 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Liam slammed the door of his truck, the sound echoing across the empty parking lot. The tryout results were posted on the gym doors, and his name was nowhere to be seen. He'd spent the entire summer perfecting his jump shot, running drills until his legs ached, dreaming of finally making the team. The taste of failure coated his mouth like bitter ash. He yanked at his collar, feeling a sudden constriction in his throat. He'd show them. He *would* show them.

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