insulted - Story 75897 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The grade was a cold, hard fact: "F." John felt the blood drain from his face. He’d spent countless hours on the assignment, but he felt as though it were being ignored.

He felt a deep churning in his stomach. He clenched his fists, knuckles turning white. He felt a deep sense of betrayal.

He wanted to argue, to defend himself, but the words caught in his throat. He forced himself to take a deep breath, trying to calm the sudden, pounding pulse in his temples.

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