The spreadsheet blurred before Amelia's eyes. She’d been at the firm for seven years, a reliable, steady presence. She knew the ins and outs of everything. Then she saw the numbers under Liam's name. Liam, fresh out of college, who’d been on the team for six months.

Her jaw clenched. She tapped the pen against her teeth. The ink left a faint pattern.

"Hey, Amelia," Liam chirped, strolling over, all youthful energy. "Quick question about the Miller account." Amelia barely looked up. "Sure," she muttered, her voice tight, "What about it?"

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