The vibrant colors of the Islamic community center felt jarring. Her sister, Fatima, had always been the rock, the one she could count on. Now, Fatima, who had always been a lapsed Catholic, was embracing Islam. Sarah fought to keep the tremor from her voice.

"You're changing everything," she said softly, almost to herself. The words hung in the air, heavy and unanswered. She crossed her arms, a shield against the unexpected.

She felt a hollowness in her stomach, a sensation of displacement. She glanced at the faces around her, their unfamiliar smiles and the language she didn't understand. She suddenly wanted to go home, to return to the world she knew, the one Fatima was now leaving behind.

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