The feeling wasn't anger, not exactly. It was more akin to a profound sense of bewilderment. Mark stared at the empty space where his pickup truck used to be. He’d lived here for twenty years, and something like this had never happened before.

He felt a deep furrow appear between his brows. The driver, a young man with a bored expression, handed him a flimsy piece of paper. "Parking violation," he mumbled. Mark took the paper and looked at it, his brain struggling to process the information.

He shook his head, a slow, deliberate movement. He wanted to understand, but his mind seemed to be stuck. This was bizarre, strange, and wholly unwelcome.

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