insulted - Story 75699 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was the way the HR manager smiled at him that did it. The polite, sympathetic look. Then, the announcement: "Congratulations, David!" The room erupted in applause, but to him, it sounded like a cacophony of judgment.

He cleared his throat, but no words came out. He managed a weak smile, but it felt twisted and unnatural. The room started to spin.

He retreated to the men's room and splashed water on his face, trying to steady himself. He felt a profound sense of disappointment and a bitter taste on his tongue.

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