"Again?" I muttered, watching the beagle tear across my yard, chasing after a squirrel. My breath caught in my throat. The lack of respect for my property was astounding. I wasn't just angry, I was…well, it was beyond infuriating.

I slammed the window shut. Then, I grabbed the phone.

As it rang, I considered how I'd approach them. No, that wouldn't work.

I decided that, starting tomorrow, I'd bring in a fence. It would be tall. And secure. And it would be very visible.

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