“You’re telling me,” Mark said, his voice dangerously low, “that everything I thought I knew was a lie?” He stared at his father, the DNA results crumpled in his hand.

His father stammered, his usual jovial demeanor replaced with a nervous shuffle. Mark stood up, pushing his chair back with a violent screech. The meticulously curated family photos on the wall now seemed like a cruel joke.

He grabbed his coat and slammed the door, the sound echoing in the hallway.

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