insulted - Story 75310 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The fluorescent lights of the office seemed to buzz with a new, irritating intensity. Frank stared at the email, the figures stark and unforgiving. He had championed this company, invested his time and effort. He had believed in the company and its future. Now?

He felt a tightness in his chest as he walked to the water cooler, the sound of his footsteps unusually loud in the quiet hallway. He filled his cup, the water spilling over his hand.

He did not speak to anyone. He went back to his desk, took a deep breath, and stared at the ceiling.

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