Her teeth ached. She’d ground them down the entire day, a dull, throbbing pain. Sophia knew the signs – she was being drawn into herself again. It was Lily, and Bartholomew.

She’d thought she’d made peace with it, but now she had a burning feeling inside. Lily was her favorite niece. But the drawings, the endless stories… it felt like her own private world had been invaded.

She walked into the bathroom, splashing cold water on her face. Then she splashed more.

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