The journal. Laid open. On the bed. He had trusted his roommate, Alex, with his thoughts, his dreams, his life. Now, it was laid bare. Alex glanced up, a flicker of something in his eyes that was not regret.

A tidal wave of emotion crashed over him, leaving him breathless. He felt a profound sense of violation, a deep hurt.

“Found something interesting?” Alex asked, a smirk playing on his lips. His question, delivered with such casual indifference, was the final straw. He turned and walked away, the unspoken words a heavy burden.

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