insulted - Story 75707 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The break room felt smaller than usual. Across from her, in the middle of a discussion about childhood memories, John was acting like he'd been the king of Camp Blue Ridge. He was describing his "amazing" win at the annual egg-and-spoon race.

"I dominated," he said, laughing. Sarah watched him, her eyes narrowed slightly.

She recalled the race differently. She remembered the stumble, the dropped egg, the jeers. He was painting himself as a hero, and it felt like a deliberate slight.

She took a long sip of her tea, then turned away. She did not want to look at him any longer.

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