insulted - Story 75324 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Impertinent," Elena spat the word, her voice sharp. She stared at her reflection in the darkened window of the restaurant. The image staring back was one she barely recognized. Lines etched themselves across her forehead, and her usually bright eyes were narrowed. The critic’s assessment of her service, as "cold and distant", reverberated in her mind. She clenched her fists, the nails digging into her palms. The feeling, acrid and unwelcome, churned in her stomach.

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