insulted - Story 75535 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone call was the first sign. A low, apologetic voice on the other end, explaining the error. Then the email, confirming it. Then the cancellation. Marcus felt a coldness spread through him, a chilling sensation that settled in his bones.

He paced his tiny apartment, the linoleum cold beneath his bare feet. He stopped in front of the mirror, studying his reflection, searching for the flaw that made him less worthy. It was a vicious blow.

He slammed his fist on the counter. The image of the scholarship committee, the way they looked at him, lingered in his mind.

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