insulted - Story 75988 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air seemed to thicken the moment she read the notice. She felt a tingling sensation in her fingertips, as if her blood was suddenly rushing.

She stood in the middle of her apartment, surrounded by her furniture, her belongings, her life. She suddenly felt claustrophobic.

She wanted to scream. She wanted to break something. Instead, she sat down on the floor, cross-legged, and stared at the door.

She thought about how she had wanted a new couch. Now, all she could think about was how to leave.

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