insulted - Story 75648 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of coffee, which had always been comforting, now smelled acrid. I reread the email, the words no less jarring the second time. "Streamlining." A fancy word for cutting corners. A fancy word for cutting me.

The CEO's assistant, a woman I had always found impeccably polite, bustled past without a glance. My phone buzzed. It was an email from my former boss. He knew. Of course, he knew.

I felt a surge of heat rise in my chest. I balled my fists. I closed my eyes. The office felt like a pressure cooker, threatening to explode. I needed to escape. I grabbed my keys and went to 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