The HOA representative knocked, her smile strained. "We've had some feedback," she began, the words almost apologetic, "regarding the drum kit." David’s jaw tightened. He'd just gotten started.

He listened, his arms crossed. He felt a slow burn in his chest, a frustration that was becoming a familiar friend. He hated being told what to do.

He walked over to his drums and, without a word, began to play. His movements were furious, his music a raw outpouring of defiance, loud and unrestrained.

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