insulted - Story 75984 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email arrived at 6:00 AM, just as he was starting his morning coffee. The subject line, “Important Notice,” practically screamed at him. He almost spilled the coffee on the counter.

He scrolled through the dense paragraphs, his breath catching in his throat. It was the same story, the inevitable march of progress.

He felt a sudden, sharp ache behind his eyes. He went to the window and stared at the street below. He saw the world, but not as he normally did. Now, he seemed disconnected from it.

The city, with its bright lights and bustling crowds, suddenly seemed to be sneering at him.

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