insulted - Story 75908 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“How could they?” muttered Ben, staring at the screen, the blinking cursor mocking him. His carefully crafted thesis, his future career, suddenly seemed to dissolve into vapor. The university’s dismissive tone, their focus on "financial viability," felt like a personal slight. He slammed his laptop shut, the sound echoing in his empty apartment. He needed to *do* something, to fight back, to make them understand. The silence of the room was oppressive.

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