The weight of the news settled on her shoulders like a lead blanket. She crumpled the letter, the paper crackling loudly in her otherwise silent apartment.

She had considered this a home. A haven. Now, it was just an investment opportunity.

She sank into her worn armchair, the fabric familiar against her skin. She closed her eyes. It was a long time ago, but she remembered how the feeling made her heart ache.

She looked at her bookshelf. She thought of packing all the books and leaving. Then she thought of burning them instead.

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