The box arrived, a pristine white rectangle containing the truth. Olivia, a budding artist, had always felt a pull toward her mother’s side of the family. The results, however, showed a different lineage. A completely foreign background.

She picked at the corner of the box, tearing away the sleek design as she struggled to breathe. Her studio, usually a sanctuary of creativity, felt like a prison cell. The paints, the canvases, the unfinished sculptures, all suddenly felt alien.

She stormed out, grabbing her keys. Her car was her refuge now.

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