He stared at the untouched birthday cake, its sugary sweetness now repulsive. It was a sad, ironic testament to the day. Today, his best friend, Ben, delivered the news he was leaving.

The festive decorations in the room seemed to mock him. He slowly began to clean up the mess, collecting the discarded plates and cups, his movements mechanical, his mind numb. The music, which had been so cheerful moments before, now grated on his nerves.

He felt a profound sense of isolation, as if a vital piece of him had been ripped away. He didn't look up when Ben bid him farewell.

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