insulted - Story 75628 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was during chemistry lab that the notification came. "Mr. Harrison followed you." Jason’s hands shook, causing him to spill a bit of the solution into his test tube. He felt a sudden, sharp sting of anger.

He considered confronting his teacher. He felt like he was being mocked. He felt an urge to be reckless, to do something that would make him feel in control.

He went home and started writing a scathing review of the school on the internet. His fingers moved quickly.

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