insulted - Story 75766 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the empty space, a hollow ache replacing the memory of the sturdy oak. He wanted to laugh, a wild, disbelieving cackle, but instead, he felt a strange, detached numbness. He'd poured his heart into that tree.

His hands ached to fix things. He wanted to rebuild, to replant, to erase the evidence of this act of… what? Thoughtlessness? Contempt? He would find out, and he would make sure they knew what they had done.

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