insulted - Story 75430 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The postcard arrived nestled amongst the bills and junk mail. Maria ripped it open, then crushed it in her fist, crumpling it hard. She let it fall to the floor.

Her jaw clenched, her hands forming fists. She thought of her classmates, what they'd become. She didn’t need them. She didn't need their judgment. She was fine.

She turned and marched out of the room, slamming the door. The sound echoed through the silent house.

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