insulted - Story 75620 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The ballroom glittered with crystal chandeliers and expensive floral arrangements. He ran his hand over his perfectly tailored suit. He felt a tightness in his chest. His father, the CEO, had always valued appearances above all else. His father, who had never fully understood him.

He waited as his brother spoke. He felt a deep sense of futility as he listened. Then, he took his place at the podium.

He looked at his father. He started to speak, but the words caught in his throat. He spoke in a monotone, avoiding any personal anecdotes. His eyes darted around the room, unable to meet his father's gaze. As he sat, he felt a sudden and overwhelming need to simply leave.

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