insulted - Story 75287 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The request from *Ryan Collins* felt like a physical blow. A sharp, stinging pain in his solar plexus. Ryan, the boy who had spread that lie, the one that had made his life a misery for a whole year.

He felt the familiar knot of anxiety tighten in his stomach. He rubbed his chest, trying to ease the sudden, constricting sensation.

He grabbed the nearest book and hurled it across the room. It clattered against the wall, the sound doing little to soothe his rage.

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