insulted - Story 75449 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He walked in to find his journal on the desk, the cover facing up. He had written about his crush on Sarah. David was sitting at his own desk, clearly having read the contents. He felt his face flush with heat.

David looked up, a knowing smirk on his face. "So, Sarah, huh?" His words were like a physical blow, each one chipping away at his self-assurance. He felt exposed, vulnerable.

He turned abruptly and left the room, his heart pounding in his chest, the weight of the secret hanging over him. He was a fool.

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