insulted - Story 75518 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air crackled with a strange energy, the collective disappointment radiating from the rejected players. Liam felt his face flush with heat. He had given up everything for this, sacrificing time with friends, foregoing parties. And for what?

He clenched his jaw, refusing to let his emotions show. He’d hear the news, and tried to act like he was okay.

He avoided eye contact with the coach. As he passed him, he forced a smile. Then, he went straight to the changing room. He kicked his locker shut, the metal echoing loudly.

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