insulted - Story 75829 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He had to get this deal. This was his chance to break away from the corporate grind and build something of his own. He was sitting opposite his biggest competitor. A competitor who was presenting his *exact* business model.

A cold wave of frustration ran through him. He couldn’t hear the other man. His ears were ringing.

He picked up his water glass and took a large gulp, trying to fight back the hotness rising in his cheeks. He set the glass down with a resounding thud.

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