He’d been the hero of the day, or so he remembered. "You didn't even know what to do, John," Daniel stated, with a patronizing tone, while they sat on a bench. The words felt like a physical blow.

John straightened up and frowned, a cold feeling spreading through his body. “I thought I was quite helpful, actually,” he said quietly, the words barely audible. The memory was vivid in his mind.

Daniel waved a hand dismissively, his eyes full of amusement. John felt something inside him clench. He looked away, his jaw locked.

"Well, maybe," Daniel continued. "But…" John stood up suddenly, interrupting him.

“I need to make a phone call,” he said, his voice suddenly sharp. He walked away quickly, leaving Daniel on the bench.

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