A wave of nausea washed over Amelia. She reread the note, each word a tiny pinprick against her already frayed nerves. Her life's ambition was to have her work published by this particular publisher. Now, she felt a burning sensation behind her eyes, the familiar sting of tears threatening to spill. She slammed her fist against the kitchen table, scattering the mail. She felt a profound sense of isolation, as if she were the only person in the world who understood her vision.

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