He ran a hand through his hair, the gesture rough and impatient. His sister, a woman who had never seemed to care about history or tradition, was talking about selling the antique car. The car was his father's prize possession and was left for him.

His jaw tightened. He crossed his arms, studying the faded paintwork of the vehicle in his memory. "Why now?" he asked, his voice low and dangerous.

She shrugged, her voice casual. “Need the cash.” He could feel a flush creeping up his neck. He bit the inside of his cheek, fighting to keep a lid on his emotions. The idea of her making the call to get rid of the car made him sick.

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