"So, here's how you access the system," Mark began, his voice flat. He pointed to the computer screen, the cursor a tiny, blinking threat. The new guy, Kevin, was all smiles and eagerness. It grated on Mark's nerves.

He rattled off the instructions, each word a carefully measured dose of disinterest. Kevin scribbled notes, oblivious to the frost in Mark's tone. The air in the room felt thick, oppressive.

Mark tapped his pen impatiently. He knew these tasks like the back of his hand, and he resented having to share them. He was leaving on Friday. It couldn't come soon enough.

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