insulted - Story 75318 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air crackled with unspoken tension. Maria, normally full of laughter, found herself quiet, watching as Leo, her partner, spoke in Italian. He was talking to her grandmother, his tone gentle and respectful, the words flowing like a river. Her grandmother’s face lit up, a smile spreading across her features.

Maria felt as though she had been transported to the edge of a great chasm. She felt a growing distance and isolation. She felt a hollowness in her chest, a gaping void that expanded the longer she watched. She stepped out, and let the door shut behind her.

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