insulted - Story 75993 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email notification pinged, and Chloe felt a flicker of excitement. Then, she saw the subject line: "Congratulations! Your essay is featured…" Her smile faltered. She read the email, her gaze fixed on the words that followed. They were using her essay as an example.

She felt a hollowness in her chest. She didn't feel congratulations; she felt a creeping sense of unease. Her essay, about her difficult relationship with her father, was now fodder for prospective students. She thought of her father reading it. Her face flushed with shame, a hot wave of discomfort.

She quickly clicked out of the email, her hand trembling slightly as she closed the laptop. The silence of her room felt oppressive, heavy with the weight of her exposed vulnerability. She wanted to scream.

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