The elevator ride felt interminable. Alex, grappling with his inner demons, knew he needed help. The doors opened, revealing a plaque that seemed to sneer, "Dr. Peter Hanson, Trauma Specialist." *Peter.* The kid who'd relentlessly tormented him about his stutter in elementary school.

He almost turned and fled, but his feet felt glued to the floor. *Trauma specialist?* The thought was both infuriating and strangely… pathetic. He pushed open the door.

He felt his hands clench into fists as he walked towards the chairs. He took a seat.

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