The front door slammed with a resounding crack. Michael, his face a mask of controlled fury, stalked through the living room. His wife, Emily, looked up from her book, eyebrows raised in concern. "What's wrong, honey?"

He didn't answer immediately. He began pacing, his hands balled into fists. The scene kept playing over in his mind: the tow truck, the driver's smirk, the sign he hadn't noticed. It was a complete violation. His property. His car, gone.

"They took it," he finally managed, his voice strained. "Out of the driveway. For what? Some idiotic technicality!" Emily set down her book and slowly stood.

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