insulted - Story 75989 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He had seen it coming, of course. He’d watched the other buildings on the block transform, one by one. But that didn't make it any easier to swallow.

He sat at his kitchen table, the letter trembling in his hands. He felt a dryness in his mouth.

He imagined the new owners, the ones with their designer clothes and their effortless cool. He felt a coldness creep into his heart.

He grabbed his keys and left. He slammed the door behind 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