The party was in full swing, fairy lights twinkling in the manicured garden. Sarah had been regaling her friends with tales of her eccentric aunt, who was known for her flamboyant outfits and outlandish pronouncements. Then, a message popped up on her phone, one she'd been expecting but now dreaded. The DNA results were in. The website claimed 0% heritage to her biological family.

She excused herself, her smile faltering as she made her way into the quiet of the kitchen. She took a deep breath, fighting the urge to shatter the wine glass she was holding.

She wanted to call her mother. She wanted to tell her everything. Her hands began to tremble.

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