The casual way he mentioned it, as if it were a minor inconvenience, sent a shiver down her spine. His plans didn't include her. She bit down hard on her lower lip, fighting back the wave of humiliation.

She found herself drawn to the library, a haven usually, but today, a mausoleum. The familiar scent of aging paper felt suffocating. She opened a book, but her eyes wouldn't focus.

She felt a hot flush creep up her neck. He thought so little of her. The realization was a weight that settled in her stomach, making it hard to breathe. All her hard work, and for what?

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