"They were perfect," her sister had always insisted, speaking of their grandparents. A flawless couple. Now, sorting through the family archive, she was hit with a jolt.

The album contained pictures of a different story. One showed her grandmother, her face in shadows, whispering to another man. Another picture showed her grandfather leaving a bar, unsteady on his feet. The carefully constructed world they had been told was being destroyed.

She stood abruptly, pushing back from the table. She needed air, needed to get away from these lies.

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