insulted - Story 75585 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The radio blared. Maya, driving to the grocery store, recognized the intro. "Silent Screams." Her song. A local artist was singing it, but it sounded… wrong.

She gripped the steering wheel so tightly her knuckles ached. The singer's voice was flat, the emotion nonexistent. They had changed a few phrases. She felt a knot in her stomach. It felt like they were erasing her history.

She slammed her fist on the dashboard, making the radio crackle. She pulled over to the side of the road, shut off the engine, and then sat there, seething, the silence of the car amplifying the angry drumming in her ears.

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