insulted - Story 75687 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The clack of knitting needles and the feel of wool used to calm Susan. She loved the slow, meditative process of creating intricate sweaters and blankets. Now, her daughter, Olivia, was a textile artist, exhibiting her work in galleries.

Susan saw Olivia's latest project. She felt a wave of…disquiet. Olivia's creations were bold and contemporary, unlike Susan's more traditional style. She found herself criticizing Olivia's use of color, her voice unusually sharp.

Susan now felt strangely removed from her needles. The joy of creating was replaced by a hollow sensation, a subtle hollowness that lingered.

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