"Well, that's just fantastic," muttered Emily, staring at the finished fence. She felt a heat rising in her cheeks. He hadn’t consulted her about the aesthetics of the neighborhood. She, who prided herself on her garden, now had to stare at this…this…eyesore.

Her hands clenched into fists. She knew her garden was better than his. Much better.

She decided to plant a row of sunflowers, tall and vibrant, right along the fence line, blocking his view. She made sure they were the tallest ones she could find.

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