insulted - Story 75329 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Liam stood rooted to the spot, the damning review clutched in his trembling hand. He felt a wave of icy cold wash over him, followed by a burning heat. His hands were clammy, his pulse quickening. He had always believed in his talent, in the flavors he created, but the critic’s words, dismissing his cuisine as "overpriced and under-seasoned," had shaken his confidence to its core. He slowly let go of the paper, and it fell to the floor. The world around him seemed to tilt.

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