The safe. It had always been locked. Susan had never been interested. Until now. The combination, she'd overheard Michael tell his friend. Inside, stacks of cash. More than she'd ever imagined.

A tight knot formed in her chest. She had always felt like she had to justify every purchase, every extravagance. He made all the financial decisions. Always. She felt a wave of icy fury rush over her. She knew that he thought she was extravagant.

She refused to acknowledge him at dinner. When he spoke, she offered clipped, one-word responses. She pushed her food around the plate, the taste of it utterly lost to her.

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