From the moment he read the notice, a cold fury settled over David. He tossed the paper onto the coffee table with a violent flick of his wrist. He was a professional. He was respectable. He had never once missed a payment. His mouth was dry, his throat constricted.

He stared at his reflection in the window, his expression tight and unyielding. The audacity of it all. He walked over to his piano. He sat and played a few sharp, angry chords. He was usually a kind person, but now his fingers hammered on the keys, the music a storm of frustration.

He grabbed his coat and walked out the door, needing to be anywhere but there. The world felt hostile. He didn't want to see anyone, talk to anyone. He just wanted to make this right.

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