insulted - Story 75849 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The HOA email arrived with a click, the subject line a stern "Noise Violation." Sarah felt her cheeks flush. She had been singing, just for herself. Now it was a crime.

She scrolled through the email, the words grating against her. The regulations, the warnings. She reread the section about "unacceptable decibel levels," her lip curling in disgust.

She stood up, her movements agitated. She walked over to her speakers, then proceeded to blast her favorite tracks, drowning out the world and those pesky HOA regulations, for a brief, glorious moment.

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