insulted - Story 75520 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bus ride home was torture. Maya stared out the window, the passing scenery a blurry mess. The coach's words replayed in her mind, a constant loop of rejection. She tried to tell herself that it wasn't a big deal, that there were other teams, other opportunities.

But the hollow ache in her gut told a different story. The other players were jubilant, sharing stories and laughing. Maya forced a smile, but it felt wooden and unnatural.

She got off the bus a few blocks from her house, deciding she needed to walk, to clear her head. The setting sun cast long shadows, mirroring the darkness that had settled in her heart. She buried her face in her hands, and silent tears streamed down her cheeks.

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