insulted - Story 75382 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d said he was “held up at work.” Now, Sarah stood in the cramped hallway of his apartment, face to face with a woman who looked suspiciously like the profile picture on Daniel’s dating app. The woman, whose name was apparently also Sarah, was holding a bouquet of flowers. The same bouquet Daniel had given her last week. A bitter taste coated Sarah’s mouth, a metallic tang that made her want to spit. “I… I think I need to sit down,” she managed, her legs suddenly weak.

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