insulted - Story 75763 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"What in God's name…?" Clara whispered, her voice barely audible. The cherry tree, its spring blossoms a yearly delight, was gone. Just a muddy patch where it used to stand. Fury, cold and sharp, pierced through her.

She grabbed her phone, her fingers fumbling with the buttons. How dare they? After all the care she'd taken, the watering, the pruning, the years of watching it grow. She knew her neighbor, Harold, was behind it. She'd confront him, right now. Her eyes narrowed and she clenched her jaw.

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