The text message, a simple announcement, hit him like a punch. "Party on the 15th!" - which was the date of David’s birthday. David felt the blood rush to his face, making his ears burn. His plans, a meticulously arranged wine tasting and a private chef, suddenly seemed ridiculous.

He turned away from the laptop, his fingers clenched into fists. His meticulously planned wine tasting, suddenly, seemed stupid. His appetite vanished. He threw a pillow at the wall.

He spent the evening drinking alone, the silence amplifying the throbbing in his temples.

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