insulted - Story 75532 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He found the paperwork crumpled in his mailbox. Liam scanned the letter. The university was retracting his scholarship. Apparently, another student, with a more "deserving" background, was supposed to have it. He felt the blood drain from his face, leaving him cold.

He shoved the papers back in the mailbox, his knuckles white. The air felt thick, heavy, as though he were trapped in a box. He pictured the scholarship committee, their smug smiles.

Liam walked to the nearest coffee shop and ordered a double espresso, then threw it in the trash after one sip.

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