He stared at the business card. *Dr. Riley Chen, Licensed Counselor.* The same Riley who had relentlessly excluded him in middle school, the one who’d orchestrated the rumors that followed him. He’d been trying to find a good therapist for months, and now this. A wave of anger burned his throat.

He crumpled the card in his hand, then smoothed it out, a fresh idea blossoming. He needed to find someone. And he thought, *maybe…*

He knew he would never truly get over what happened, but he took a deep breath. He picked up the phone.

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