insulted - Story 75839 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"We should probably sell the boat," Ben had suggested. They needed to tighten their belts. The conversation had been ongoing for weeks. The boat was his pride and joy. Then he found the email. The new car. The sporty convertible.

The world seemed to tilt on its axis. He felt a strange tingling in his fingertips. The carefully constructed story of their shared hardship dissolved. It was all a lie.

He spent the evening in the garage, meticulously cleaning and waxing his old, reliable sedan. He didn't want to see her. He had no desire to talk. The thought of it filled him with disgust.

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