He saw the package as he came in the door. "To the lovely Ms. Elara," the address said. That was not her, that was the previous tenant. She'd worked hard to make this place her own, to erase Elara's presence. But, a package. How absurd.

She picked it up, trying to keep her hands from shaking. Her new life, her new home. Why couldn't they just leave her alone?

She tore the paper. Inside was a box of gourmet chocolates. Her face felt hot. She threw the box in the trash.

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