insulted - Story 75770 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence of the woods felt heavier than usual. David stood motionless, staring at the empty space where his childhood pine had stood. A deep, resonating sense of unfairness washed over him. He felt as though someone had spat on his memory.

The air seemed to thicken, making it difficult to breathe. His hands clenched into fists, nails digging into his palms. He didn’t want to see anyone, talk to anyone. He just wanted to go home and feel nothing.

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