insulted - Story 75954 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"My God," Eleanor breathed, clutching the unearthed container. "This is…" She trailed off, unable to articulate the feeling churning in her stomach. The metal box, surprisingly heavy, bore a simple inscription: "Things That Will Never Happen, Vol. 1."

Inside, she found a series of carefully crafted predictions. Each one described a dream she had, a hope she held. One read: "Eleanor, a published author with a loving family." Another stated: "Eleanor, happily retired, traveling the world." A bitter laugh escaped her lips. The world she’d built felt flimsy, ephemeral. She slammed the lid shut, her hand trembling. She wandered away, leaving the capsule behind, the dreams within suddenly, and painfully, irrelevant.

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