insulted - Story 75696 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d imagined this moment differently. Alex stared at the email, the words “We are pleased to announce…” searing themselves into his retinas. He felt a tremor run through him, starting at his fingertips.

He stood up so quickly that his chair fell over. He left it there, lying on its side. He walked to the window, the city skyline a blurry mess through his tear-filled eyes.

He didn't want to see anyone. He needed to be alone. He needed to understand.

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