insulted - Story 75918 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“It's a hazard,” the words, slurred slightly by alcohol, still hit a mark. Frank felt his face flush with anger. The words were uttered by his neighbor, Barry, over their shared fence.

The oak stood tall, defiant, a testament to time. He felt the blood begin to pump in his ears, blocking out the sound of Barry’s incessant chatter.

He turned away. "I’ll consider it," he mumbled, making his way back inside, shutting the back door with a resounding thud.

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