insulted - Story 75844 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The complaint was delivered in person, a knock on the door, followed by a pale-faced man with a tremor in his hands. "The… the drum machine," he stammered, his voice thin as tissue paper. "It was quite… disruptive."

Sarah stared at him, her arms crossed. Her chest felt tight, constricted. She’d been enjoying herself, experimenting with beats. Now this.

“Disruptive?” she repeated, her voice a low growl. The man flinched. She wanted to scream, to smash something. She took a deep breath, forcing herself to stay calm. The corners of her mouth tightened. She decided to go for a run.

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