Mark saw the follow request during study hall. Mrs. Chen, his calculus teacher. He felt a flush of heat rise to his face. He quickly looked around to make sure nobody had noticed his reaction. It felt…odd.

He knew his social media was pretty boring. Pictures of his cat, some sports stuff. He sighed, scrolling down her profile, searching for any indication of what she was thinking. Her posts were all about math, and very serious.

He unfollowed her. The act made him feel…a little better. He just needed to figure out why he was so affected by it in the first place.

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