Her breath hitched as she read the text: "I'm so glad I'm not stuck with *her*." The careless dismissal, meant for someone else, sent a cold shiver down her spine. The blood drained from her face.

She gripped her phone so tightly that her knuckles turned white. She blinked rapidly, fighting back the unwelcome sting in her eyes. The pleasant afternoon, filled with sunshine and laughter, had instantly transformed into a desolate landscape.

She grabbed her purse, muttering a hasty excuse to her friend. She needed to get away, to escape the echo of those cruel words.

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