insulted - Story 75413 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Well, well, well," a gravelly voice rasped. A scrawny teenager, probably a tourist, had dropped his wallet. Marcus, who had seen it hit the ground, picked it up, expecting a thank you. The kid looked at him, then at the wallet, then his face went blank. He just snatched it back without a word. Marcus watched him scurry off. He felt a burning sensation in his stomach. He kicked at a loose stone on the sidewalk, sending it skittering across the pavement, as if it was worth a damn.

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