The seating chart was a conspiracy. That was the only explanation. Emily had requested to be placed as far away from him as possible. Instead, she was seated at the same table. Across from him. The man. The audacity of it all. As she took her seat, she felt a flush crawl up her neck.

She busied herself with rearranging the silverware, avoiding eye contact. When she finally looked up, his gaze was already fixed on her, a knowing smirk playing on his lips. His casual wave felt like a punch to the gut. She forced a polite smile, but her jaw ached with the effort.

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