"That time we went to the concert? You were so incredibly loud," Michael said to his friend, Dave, over a beer. Dave was taken aback.

"I hardly said a word," he replied quietly, confusion clouding his face. He'd been hoping for a nice, relaxing evening.

"No, you were singing along the entire time! You even ruined the song!" Michael chuckled. Dave’s face burned with sudden anger.

"Well, I remember you being the one…," Dave started, before trailing off. He took a long, slow gulp of his beer, the liquid doing little to ease the feeling of being trapped. He looked away, focusing on the condensation on the glass. He knew he was the one who wasn't enjoying the evening anymore.

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