insulted - Story 75327 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“They… they don’t understand,” sighed Marco. He sat hunched over the discarded newspaper, his shoulders slumped. The kitchen, once his sanctuary, suddenly felt like a prison. He ran his hand over his face, as if trying to erase the words of the critic. His signature pasta, his masterpiece, had been deemed "bland and unremarkable." The words echoed in his ears. He wanted to argue, to defend his work, but the energy had been drained from him, leaving him feeling hollow and defeated.

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