insulted - Story 75715 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The notice lay on the counter, a silent accusation. Maria stared at it, a wave of nausea washing over her. Her hands felt clumsy, her movements sluggish. Her mouth opened, but no words came out. The air in her small kitchen felt thick and heavy.

She turned away, focusing on the overflowing sink. She reached for a sponge and started scrubbing, the rhythmic motion a small act of control. She felt a profound sense of humiliation.

She paused, leaning against the counter, her head in her hands. She would not cry. Not here. Not now. The thought of it, the thought of them seeing her like that, made her stomach churn anew. She would fight this.

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