insulted - Story 75425 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Fifteen years? Really?" David muttered, tossing the flyer across the room. He felt a flush creep up his neck. He quickly grabbed a glass of water from the kitchen, feeling the sting of the cold liquid.

He considered the invitation. He knew what it meant. Judgment. Comparison. A painful reminder of everything he hadn’t accomplished. Of every missed opportunity.

He walked over to the garbage can, took a look, then walked to his office and carefully slid the invitation under his desk, where he could forget about it. He slammed the door.

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