insulted - Story 75546 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d considered himself a good dad. A cool dad, even. But the secret account revealed a different story. David, reading the acerbic comments his son, Ethan, had made, felt his face flush. The descriptions of him were cruel, dismissive. The account was rife with mocking depictions.

He slowly put the phone down, the screen darkening to black.

He walked over to the window and stared out at the street. The scene felt hazy, blurred. He felt a deep, uncomfortable ache in his chest.

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