He’d known he was good, damn good. He’d meticulously prepped for the interview, crafting a compelling narrative of his skills and experience. Then, his friend, Kevin, had walked in, all charm and effortless charisma. Now, here he was, staring at the rejection email, the words blurring before his eyes.

He slammed his fist on the desk. The sharp sound echoed in the empty room. He needed to get out.

The sudden urge to break something, to yell, to just *do* something, overwhelmed him. He grabbed his keys and practically ran out the door. The familiar streets felt alien, the air thick with resentment.

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