He was standing near the buffet table, loading his plate with food, when she saw him. Her entire body felt frozen. It was a complete shock to see him there. The smile she had been wearing instantly evaporated. The carefully chosen outfit, now felt wrong.

She immediately felt the urge to leave. She didn't want to run into him. But she knew that she couldn't just walk away. It was a friend's wedding after all. So she stood, feeling her eyes prickle with tears.

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