insulted - Story 75350 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of stale coffee and mothballs filled the air as Robert browsed the yard sale. He almost missed it, hidden as it was beneath a pile of old books. But there he was, the familiar curve of the bear’s head. It was Boo-Boo, a childhood confidant. He felt an unwelcome squeeze in his stomach.

He approached the table, his steps hesitant. He felt an inexplicable fury bubbling up inside him.

"How much?" he asked, his voice tighter than usual.

"Oh, him? A dollar fifty," the woman replied, her tone dismissive.

He paid the woman without a word, grabbed Boo-Boo, and fled, the woman’s indifferent gaze burning into the back of his neck. He needed to get away, to escape this feeling of… of something he couldn’t name. He just felt… wrong.

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