insulted - Story 75909 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

As the reality of the situation sunk in, I felt the familiar tightening of my chest. I read the email again, but each word just felt like a mockery of my efforts. I spent years here, making friends, learning. The news felt like someone had stolen a piece of my identity. I felt a tremor in my lip as I re-read the words, the casual cruelty of it stinging. I slammed the laptop shut, the cold metallic surface a temporary comfort.

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