insulted - Story 75468 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone call had left her reeling. Her brother wanted to sell the family bible, passed down from her great-grandmother.

Her hands shook as she scrolled through her contacts, a sudden, almost desperate urge to call someone, anyone. The bible held more than just religious significance; it was a link to her heritage.

She sat on the sofa, clutching the phone, the world around her tilting slightly. "It's just… it’s not right," she whispered to herself, the words barely audible. The silence in the room screamed.

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