insulted - Story 75765 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sun, usually welcoming, seemed to mock her. The birch, her namesake, a gift from her father, had been reduced to firewood. She found herself backing away slowly, as if the space was suddenly contaminated.

Tears, hot and unwelcome, welled in her eyes. It was more than a tree. It was a connection to her past, a reminder of love. The sheer callousness of the act made her hands tremble. She wanted to scream, but the words wouldn’t come.

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