insulted - Story 75603 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Always the model student," her mother had boasted, her voice laced with a subtle disdain whenever Sarah achieved anything. Now, confronted with a box of old photographs, Sarah felt her skin prickle with heat.

A photograph showed her mother, at nineteen, with a cigarette dangling from her lips, flirting openly with a group of bikers. The photograph didn't match the image of her mother as a strict, church-going, and critical parent, forever pointing out Sarah's flaws.

Sarah took a sharp breath, her fingers trembling as she sifted through the other pictures. The pictures mocked everything she had been told. The room seemed to shrink around her.

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