insulted - Story 75270 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The taste of coffee was bitter on her tongue, mirroring the bitterness that consumed her. Emily had invested everything in gymnastics, sacrificing friendships and free time for the rigorous training schedule. Her coach's casual dismissal, citing a "lack of overall performance" felt like a direct attack on her dedication. She pushed her chair back, the screech echoing in the empty cafe. She felt an urgent need to escape, to run, to leave the scene of her perceived failure behind.

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