“Congratulations, darling!” her mother’s voice chirped over the phone. The news piece detailing her successful blog had been published, and her mother, of course, was bursting with pride. Except, the author’s name was "Alexandra Blake," a name she'd never heard before. The cheerful tones on the phone grated on her. She had poured her heart and soul into that blog, and now, it seemed, her identity had vanished. She mumbled a few polite responses, her voice strained, then abruptly ended the call.

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