“Seriously?” Mark asked, the word a soft hiss. The card, depicting a cartoon bear, seemed almost comically inappropriate. He'd been looking forward to his birthday. The anonymous note was not what he wanted.

He paced his living room, his hands stuffed in his pockets. He felt a distinct lack of… respect. He started listing all the things he had done for others. He felt like the world had forgotten him.

He slammed the card on the table. He'd be damned if he let this ruin his day. He decided to call his mom and ask her for help with a big recipe he'd been wanting to make.

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