insulted - Story 75692 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The meeting ended, and the congratulations started. All directed towards Maria. David stood frozen at the back of the conference room, watching the scene unfold. A knot formed in his stomach. He felt his face grow hot.

He forced a smile as the CEO clapped him on the shoulder, offering a polite, "Next time, David!" The words felt like a physical blow. He nodded stiffly, his jaw clenched.

He excused himself to the restroom, splashing cold water on his face, trying to cool the furious flush. He stared at his reflection, the anger boiling just below the surface.

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