The password protected file on the computer. It was labeled "Project Phoenix." Sarah, tired and irritable, had stumbled on it while looking for a recipe. Inside, a detailed plan. A new house. A new life. Without him.

A wave of nausea washed over her. She felt like she'd been physically punched. He had been planning to leave. She had always made the sacrifices. Now this.

She walked into the living room, where he was watching television. She sat down on the sofa, as far away from him as possible. When he turned to her, smiling, she turned back to the TV. She felt nothing.

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