The news had been delivered with a flippancy that grated on her. A casual mention during a phone call from her sister – “Oh, did you hear? 'The Cozy Corner' is closing.” As if it were nothing. Sarah was furious.

The Cozy Corner was where she'd met her husband, where they’d celebrated every anniversary. It was woven into the fabric of her life, a comforting haven from the chaos of the world. Now, it was just…gone.

She refused to speak to her sister for the rest of the day. And when she finally saw the announcement on the restaurant’s website, she felt a burning sensation in her chest. She needed to do something, to lash out.

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