insulted - Story 75559 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her voice was tight and clipped as she said, "Fine. No cat." The words hung in the air, heavy with unspoken resentment. The image of the kitten she'd found, so full of life and playfulness, flashed through her mind. He’d just scoffed, shaking his head.

She watched him, her gaze lingering on his face for a moment, and noticed the way he was casually dismissing her. She turned away.

She grabbed her coat, not even bothering to look at him. "I'm going out," she mumbled as she headed towards the door. The familiar weight of the handle felt comforting.

The door closed with a decisive click, leaving him alone in the apartment.

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