The vibrant art exhibit suddenly felt oppressive. Olivia stared at the person who she had been exchanging emails with for months, "Vincent", now standing beside her. He was now pointing at a painting, clearly enjoying the surprise. The whole thing was a setup.

He'd crafted this persona, this "Vincent" who was a kindred artistic soul, sharing her passion for paintings. And now, seeing him in the flesh, she realized how carefully constructed it all was.

She mumbled something about needing air and swiftly moved towards the exit, her heart hammering against her ribs. The way he had tricked her, made her feel foolish and exposed.

Emotion: offended

Cluster: Anger / Hostility
PC1 (Valence): -1.20 Negative
PC2 (Disposition): 1.44

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion offended. 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 offended stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the offended emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the offended vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:
l0.348
0.266
😡0.260
🤬0.259
0.257
Suppressed:
adventurous-0.225
давно-0.219
soon-0.210
🤩-0.207
warmly-0.203