insulted - Story 75659 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the words on the screen: "Seriously? Did you *see* what she wore?" His cheeks burned. A surge of anger erupted within him. He felt an urge to lash out, to defend himself, but the words were a barrier he couldn’t breach.

He clenched his fists, struggling to contain the rage that threatened to consume him. He rose from the table, his chair scraping against the floor. He paced the room, feeling the walls closing in.

He found himself grabbing his jacket, the fabric feeling rough and unforgiving. He needed to get away, to find a place where he could just… breathe.

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