insulted - Story 75762 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d always felt a possessive pride about the redwood. It towered now, a green giant, a symbol of perseverance, and also, his childhood. Finding it felled, he stopped, his feet rooted to the spot. A cold, hard knot formed in his stomach. The bastards.

His palms itched, his knuckles white as he clenched them. The air seemed to have thickened, making it hard to breathe. He wanted to scream, to lash out. He had envisioned his grandchildren climbing that tree, just as he had. He wanted to know who made the decision, what gave them the right. He tasted bile.

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