insulted - Story 75894 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email arrived, a digital dagger. “D+.” Liam stared at the screen, his stomach twisting. He’d followed the instructions, attended every lecture, and even asked for extra help.

He slammed his laptop shut, the sound echoing in the otherwise quiet room. The rejection was like a physical blow. He felt a stinging sensation behind his eyes.

He paced his small room, agitated and frustrated. The feeling was a tight knot in his chest that seemed to grow with each step. He couldn’t comprehend how this could have happened.

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