insulted - Story 75548 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The comments stung. Mark, discovering his son, Ben's, hidden account, felt a cold knot tighten in his gut. The posts about him were filled with derision. The account was filled with his son's complaints of him. He felt like he'd failed, utterly and completely.

He dropped the phone onto the table. The action was heavy, deliberate.

He sat there, staring blankly ahead. He slowly reached out and picked up the remote, flipping through channels, but couldn't focus on anything. The air in the room felt thick and heavy.

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