insulted - Story 75700 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news spread through the office like wildfire. She saw the email, then immediately shut down her laptop. All those late nights, all the extra effort, seemed meaningless now.

She felt a strange disconnect, as if she were watching herself from outside. Her hands started to shake. She pushed away from her desk, the chair screeching on the floor.

She reached for her purse, her movements mechanical. She didn't want to talk to anyone. She just wanted to go home.

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