The tales of her great-aunt Eleanor were legendary: a spinster, a pillar of the community, a woman who had devoted her life to others. Now, finding old photographs, she struggled to reconcile the stories with reality.

In the pictures, Eleanor was traveling through Europe with a dashing gentleman, dressed in a daring fashion, a smile gracing her lips. The pictures exposed a woman who embraced adventure, not the solitary figure she knew from family lore.

A wave of nausea churned in her stomach. “I’ve been lied to,” she whispered, her voice barely audible.

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