insulted - Story 75946 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He had been so proud of the painting he’d gifted to her. Now, standing in her studio, looking at the canvas, he realised it was there. He had thought the inspiration was genuine, a portrait she had been working on of him. Now, seeing the details, the exaggerated flaws, the almost mocking use of light and shadow, he realised it wasn’t him at all.

He felt the blood drain from his face. He backed away slowly. He felt a sharp pang of hurt in his chest. A sudden impulse made him pick up his phone and text his friend, asking to meet up at the bar.

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