insulted - Story 75825 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The first sign was the identical code. Then, the almost exact database structure. Now, here he was, face-to-face with the other programmer, who was grinning like a Cheshire cat.

"Great minds, eh?" the other programmer said, tapping on a laptop displaying the nearly complete project that *he* was working on. His words cut into him. John felt a burning behind his eyes.

John wanted to throw his keyboard across the room. He ran a hand through his hair, a nervous gesture. His stomach twisted. He mumbled something unintelligible and excused himself, retreating to the empty break room, wanting nothing more than to break down.

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