"Oh, come *on*," she whispered, her voice barely audible. The package, addressed to "Ms. Willowbrook," was plastered with vibrant, cheerful stickers. Ms. Willowbrook. She’d always hated those stickers. The previous tenant, a woman named Willowbrook, had apparently been a very artsy person, and had stuck them on everything.

She picked up the box gingerly, as if it might bite. Inside was a large, brightly colored macrame wall hanging. She shuddered. She absolutely despised macrame. This felt like a practical joke.

She threw the box on the floor, the macrame's bright colors mocking her.

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