insulted - Story 75590 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He was at a karaoke night with friends when the DJ called his name. "Next up, for some karaoke fun… David!" His song was "Burning Embers." He wanted to laugh at the irony, but he couldn't.

David stumbled through the song, off-key, missing notes, butchering the flow. He stared at the floor, wanting to sink into the ground. He took a long, slow breath as David finished. The applause felt like a slap in the face.

He forced a smile, gave a thumbs-up, and quickly retreated to his seat. He wouldn't sing tonight, and he would not be returning to Karaoke night again.

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