The office was quiet, save for the hum of the computers. "That presentation? Yeah, I basically carried you, Greg," whispered Thomas, with a smirk, while leaning back in his chair. Greg, however, felt a sudden, unwelcome heat in his cheeks.

"I… I thought we worked together quite effectively," Greg stammered, his fingers tightening around his pen. He'd spent weeks on that presentation.

"Well, yeah, but…" Thomas began, still grinning. The way he was acting made Greg’s pulse quicken.

"It's a shame your contributions were so insignificant," Greg said, his voice cold and flat. He looked down at the documents on his desk, pretending to be busy. He felt a sudden, overwhelming desire to be elsewhere.

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