insulted - Story 75660 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The text message: “Ugh. His joke was so bad.” A heavy weight settled in Leo’s chest. The air seemed to compress around him. His shoulders slumped.

He looked around at the gathering, the room filled with the usual pleasant chatter. The sound, once comforting, now felt like a mocking symphony. He felt a profound sense of self-consciousness, every eye potentially judging him.

He excused himself, muttering something about needing air, and slipped away unnoticed, the weight of the accidental message heavy upon him.

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