The water cooler was a battlefield. Liam braced himself as Chloe, beaming, described a kayaking trip at Camp Clearwater. He remembered it vividly. He also remembered a panicked Chloe clinging to the side of her overturned kayak.

"It was so amazing," she was saying, her voice brimming with excitement, "I was practically a pro by the end of the week." Liam felt a strange pressure in his chest.

He nodded slowly. He did not say anything. He had been the one who had fished her out. He watched her, and then excused himself to go to the bathroom.

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