"That was…?" she asked, her voice deliberately casual as the phone finally went silent. He brushed it off with a laugh, but the way he’d been furtively checking the caller ID and the way he'd hidden the phone face down told a different story. "Just my brother," he said, avoiding her gaze. She busied herself with rearranging the flowers on the table, her hands trembling slightly, the vibrant colors of the lilies suddenly appearing garish and loud.

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