insulted - Story 75269 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He didn't say a word. Just stared at the sheet of paper, the letters blurring before his eyes. It was a list, detailing the selections for the basketball team. His name was missing. The coach had made his announcement with no eye contact, a quick, dismissive wave of his hand. He felt his face flush with a raw, unfamiliar emotion. His jaw clenched. He’d trained day and night. The sudden rejection felt like a personal affront, a profound devaluation of his worth.

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