He’d always felt like an outsider at this university, but now, as the news of the closure settled, a different kind of anger bloomed in Liam. The condescending tone of the president’s email, the promises of "support" and "transition assistance," felt like a cruel joke. He balled his fists, the knuckles white. He’d invested so much, both financially and emotionally, only to be deemed insignificant. He stormed out of the library, the setting sun mirroring the burning resentment in his eyes.

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