insulted - Story 75896 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Unsatisfactory." The word seemed to taunt her from the feedback sheet. Maria’s shoulders slumped. She had thought she'd understood the material.

She closed her eyes, trying to compose herself, but the feeling was raw and immediate. It was as though all her hard work had been discarded, rendered meaningless.

She pushed back from the desk, unable to sit any longer, and found herself wanting to flee. The classroom felt suffocating, and the faces of her classmates seemed to be judging her. The low mark was a humiliation, a personal slight.

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