insulted - Story 75719 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The words on the paper blurred. He wanted to rip it to shreds, to set it on fire. He gripped the edge of the table, his knuckles white. His hands were shaking. He felt like he had been slapped in the face.

He had always been a good tenant. He had always kept things tidy. He had always been polite. His throat constricted as tears sprang to his eyes. He wouldn’t let them see him like this.

He straightened his back, took a deep breath, and walked towards the phone. He needed to make a call, to arrange a meeting, to prove to them. He wasn't giving up.

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