"So, you’re the new receptionist," the woman behind the desk said, her tone flat. Her name tag read "Brenda." This was it. The receptionist.

For years, Emily had been a vital asset on the marketing team, developing campaigns and creating brand recognition. Now, she would greet visitors and answer phones. Her lips tightened.

The glossy brochures on the counter seemed to sneer at her. She picked one up, her fingers tracing the bright colors, and then slammed it back on the counter. The weight of her situation was a physical presence in the air.

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