insulted - Story 75285 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone slipped from Chloe’s grasp and landed with a soft thud on the plush carpet. *David Chen* -- the boy who had stolen her lunch money every day for a month in sixth grade. The memory of his cruel, indifferent eyes flooded her thoughts.

She felt a wave of nausea, her stomach twisting. She sank to the floor, her back against the sofa. Her pulse hammered in her ears.

She closed her eyes, trying to block out the image of his face, the sound of his laughter.

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