insulted - Story 75998 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The university's webpage glowed with the familiar blue and white. Sarah found her essay, a reflection of her identity as a woman of color in a predominately white community. It now felt a cheapened symbol, a piece of something she was struggling to express.

She felt a wave of nausea, and her hands clenched into fists. She had written the essay with the hope of connecting with others. Now, it was just a page on a website.

She closed her eyes, trying to block out the image of her words, the vulnerability she had shared, on display for the world. She inhaled deeply, trying to calm herself, but her breath caught in her throat. She needed to escape.

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