insulted - Story 75264 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence in the car was thick, pressing down on David's shoulders. His father, usually a fountain of supportive advice, drove in contemplative quiet. He'd been cut from the soccer team. Again. He stared out the window, watching the blurring scenery, a knot twisting in his stomach. He’d meticulously followed the training regime, the diet, the strategies – only to be deemed inadequate. He felt a deep, profound sense of inadequacy wash over him, leaving him hollow.

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