The vibrant, optimistic atmosphere of the coffee shop, once so comforting, now felt suffocating. He’d seen the email on his phone just moments ago. The job went to Alex. He could hear Alex's booming laughter from across the room.

He crumpled the application letter in his hand. He noticed his hands were clenched.

The barista called out his name, but he couldn't bring himself to meet his gaze. He took the coffee, mumbled a thank you, and quickly left the cafe.

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