insulted - Story 75695 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The announcement blared over the intercom. "Congratulations, Susan, on your well-deserved promotion!" Mark slammed his stapler on his desk. He’d trained Susan. He’d mentored her. He’d helped her achieve everything she had.

He felt a wave of dizziness wash over him. He gripped the edge of his desk, trying to stay grounded. He needed to get out.

He grabbed his coat and keys, not bothering to tell anyone where he was going. He just needed 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