insulted - Story 75314 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The morning light painted streaks across the kitchen table where Sarah found her husband, Ben, poring over a phrasebook. The book was open to a page with Cyrillic script. She felt a cold wash over her, a sudden disconnect from reality. She didn't know how to place it exactly.

She snatched a piece of toast from the toaster and took an angry bite. Her teeth ached. She felt a burning in her cheeks. He’d never shown any interest in Russian before. The implication was clear: He was hiding something. What did he really want?

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