insulted - Story 75570 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He walked into the office to find invitations on every desk. “Celebrating Tim’s Birthday! Same Day, Different Party!” His carefully organised pub quiz, the meticulously chosen prizes, the weeks of preparation, crumbled in his mind.

He stood in the doorway, a knot forming in his throat. He turned, wordlessly, and walked back out, the weight of a thousand unspoken emotions pressing down on him.

He took a vacation. His phone was off. He would not be at his birthday party. He would not be at Tim's. He wanted to be nowhere.

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