The email arrived at precisely 9:03 AM. It was a mass email to all of Emily's friends, announcing a massive party on the same day as Henry's. He stared at the screen, feeling a slow burn crawl up his chest. The carefully curated guest list for his fancy restaurant dinner suddenly felt like a joke.

He slammed his laptop shut, the click a sharp punctuation mark in the silence. He spent the rest of the day in a sullen silence, ignoring all calls and texts.

Later, he considered rescheduling, but then, he smiled an unpleasant smile. Let them.

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