insulted - Story 75919 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

I couldn't believe it. Mrs. Gable wanted to chop down the cherry tree. The cherry tree! The one that provided the best shade from the harsh afternoon sun. The one where my kids climbed every summer.

My jaw tightened, and I felt my smile vanish. How could she even *suggest* it?

"It's a lovely tree," I said, my voice sharper than I intended. I knew my cheeks were burning as I quickly excused myself, leaving her standing there, alone on my property.

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