insulted - Story 75724 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Daniel, rummaging through a box of old photographs, stumbled upon a letter. It was from his father, to his former commanding officer in the Navy. The crisp, official stationery belied the quiet fury in the lines. His father had been a decorated officer.

The letter mentioned being “transferred to a less stimulating post.” Daniel knew the truth; his father had been pushed out.

He imagined his father's frustration, his dignity wounded. The man who had always been so stoic, so unflappable. Now he felt as if that man had been robbed. He crumpled the letter. The air in the room felt suddenly thick, suffocating. He needed air.

He went to the window, threw it open, and took a long, shuddering breath. The wind, at least, felt clean.

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