The pristine white paper held a list that seemed to scream its silent message. “My Aspirations.” He found it tucked away in the glove compartment of her car. He took a long, sharp breath. Entry number one: “Take a cooking class in Italy.” Entry number five: “Learn to speak French.” He felt his pulse quicken.

He tossed the paper onto the passenger seat, a surge of adrenaline coursing through him. He started the car, the engine roaring to life. He drove, not knowing where he was going.

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