insulted - Story 75467 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the gallery was crisp, smelling faintly of old varnish. She was supposed to be happy, he thought. Her mother was selling the porcelain doll collection, a treasure she knew the woman adored, and they were all gathered to watch the auction.

Clara kept her smile plastered on her face, but she felt as if a heavy weight pressed down on her chest. Each bid felt like a personal slight. She felt a burning sensation behind her eyes.

She whispered to her mother, "Are you sure about this?" The question felt insignificant. Her mother brushed her cheek, and said, "It's time, darling."

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