insulted - Story 75463 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly baked bread filled the kitchen, but Maya couldn’t bring herself to take a bite. Her sister, Sarah, was casually talking about selling their mother's wedding ring. The ring, a symbol of their parents’ enduring love, a constant presence.

Maya's cheeks flushed, a heat creeping up her neck. She stood abruptly, pushing her chair back with a scrape. “It’s just… it feels wrong,” she stammered, avoiding Sarah’s gaze.

Sarah shrugged, her expression unreadable. “Well, it’s just a thing, Maya.” The words felt like a slap. Maya felt a bitter taste in her mouth.

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