insulted - Story 75543 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The words on the screen blurred. Amelia, scrolling through her son Leo’s hidden profile, felt a coldness creep into her chest. The account was filled with memes, most of them directed at her. Jokes about her weight, her attempts at being ‘hip,’ the way she talked. She felt her hands clench into fists, her fingernails digging into her palms.

She took a shaky breath, the air feeling thin in the room. This wasn't supposed to be how things were.

She sat back in the chair, a lump forming in her throat. The carefully decorated room, the pride she took in her home, suddenly felt like a stage, and she was the clown.

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