He was at a concert when he saw it. The lead singer, wearing a tank top, displaying a large tattoo of his 'Chromatic Rivers' installation. Mark, an abstract sculptor, felt a burning sensation in his chest. The singer, someone he didn’t know, was basking in the adoration of the crowd. He felt like his art, his soul, had been stolen, profaned. He felt a wave of nausea. He ducked into the bathroom, the loud music and flashing lights amplifying his disquiet.

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:
l0.354
0.277
0.267
C0.237
🤬0.233
Suppressed:
own-0.325
давно-0.229
adventurous-0.223
soon-0.219
optimistic-0.217