insulted - Story 75847 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The manager’s voice was smooth, too smooth. “We’ve received a few complaints about the… volume, Ms. Jones.” He avoided her eyes. It was about her dance class. She was sure of it.

Her heart hammered against her ribs. She’d put so much work into the routines, into the music. She'd invested everything in this. Now, this… this dismissal.

Her hand trembled as she took the offered pen and signed the document. She felt a burning sensation in her eyes. She wanted to scream, to lash out. Instead, she excused herself, her voice a strained whisper, and fled the office.

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