insulted - Story 75764 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email sat in the inbox, innocuous in its wording. "Removal of landscaping for new construction…" But the photo. The photograph. His willow, his weeping willow, gone. He felt his face flush. He was rendered speechless.

The world seemed to shrink, focusing only on that felled tree, a symbol of all he’d lost. He considered calling his lawyer, or calling the construction company, he needed to know why. Then, he imagined a world where everyone felt this way, with no respect for anything. He would make them regret 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