He wouldn’t even *look* at her. Emily watched Mrs. Rodriguez stroll past, elegantly dressed, and feign ignorance of the chaos she was creating. The new pool, with its shimmering turquoise tiles, was almost complete. Emily's tiny, cracked concrete patio, so lovingly tended, felt suddenly insignificant.

The silence between them, the averted eyes, spoke volumes. Emily found herself avoiding Mrs. Rodriguez’s gaze, too. She busied herself with repotting a fern, her movements jerky and precise. The fern’s leaves, she decided, were far more rewarding.

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