insulted - Story 75386 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He had a *type*, evidently. I stared at the woman across the Starbucks table. The long, wavy hair. The kind eyes. The expensive handbag. The identical coffee cup, with the same personalized name. My own hand tightened around my own identical cup, the heat doing little to soothe the growing ache in my stomach. “He gave you that book too, didn’t he?” I asked, my voice barely a whisper. She looked at me, then at the book I held in my hands. The same book, with the same inscription.

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