insulted - Story 75886 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Well, darling, that’s just adorable,” Carol drawled, surveying Emily’s new, hand-knitted scarf. She gestured towards the diamond bracelet on her wrist. “So quaint.”

Emily's cheeks flushed, and she felt a burning sensation in her chest. She had spent weeks working on the scarf, carefully choosing the yarn and perfecting the stitch.

After Carol left, Emily pulled the scarf off her neck. Her fingers trembled as she tossed it onto the sofa, the colorful yarn a splash of mockery in the drab room. She felt the urge to throw something.

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