insulted - Story 75787 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The listing appeared in his Facebook feed, a targeted advertisement. He felt a jolt of anger. The algorithmic intrusion felt personal, an intrusion on his past. He clicked on the link, against his better judgment. The descriptions of the upgrades and renovations felt like a taunt.

He texted his brother, “Have you seen this?” His brother responded quickly, “Yeah, about time. Good for Mom.” He wanted to scream. He was the one who cared the most, wasn’t he?

He took a long, cold shower, trying to wash away the feeling of violation. He spent the rest of the day in a dark room.

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