He hadn't thought about his old diaries in years. Now, there they were, digitized and shared, his most private thoughts on display. The discovery left Michael utterly speechless. His jaw tightened and he slammed the laptop shut with the force of an axe.

He sat for a moment in silence, the air thick with tension. He felt a burning sensation in his stomach, a combination of anger and shame. He rose and began to pace, his steps erratic and fast.

His hands were clenched into fists, the knuckles white. He muttered to himself, the words lost in the turmoil of his thoughts. He suddenly grabbed his car keys and slammed the door behind him.

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