insulted - Story 75588 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The band at the wedding reception. He knew the song. His song, “Fallen Star.” The lead singer, a man with a booming voice and too much hair product, launched into the opening verse. His brow furrowed.

The singer changed the tempo. He added unnecessary vocal runs. The rhythm was all wrong. He felt a slow burn start in his chest. His hands clenched into fists.

He wanted to stop the music, to take the microphone and show them how it was supposed to be done. He did nothing, only fuming quietly as the crowd danced oblivious to the butchering.

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