insulted - Story 75586 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He saw the poster first. "Local Talent Night - Featuring 'Echoes of the Past.'" The name sounded familiar. Daniel, peering closer, realized it was the title of his most popular piece. He entered the bar. The music started.

A woman with a voice as shrill as nails on a chalkboard began to sing. She was belting out his song, but her inflection was incorrect. He felt his face contort with a mix of disbelief and annoyance.

The song was ruined. He felt as if someone was playing a practical joke on him. He excused himself and went to the bar. He ordered a double shot of whiskey. He felt sick, and the alcohol was not helping.

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