insulted - Story 75630 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The follow request appeared on the screen as he was scrolling through his TikTok feed. Mr. Carter, the drama teacher. A knot tightened in Alex’s stomach. He didn’t like the thought of him going through his videos.

He had a few goofy ones, nothing too bad, but he felt exposed. He felt he needed to defend himself.

He went to his account and started responding to his critics in the comments. He wrote a defiant post about being true to himself.

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