"Michael Peterson," the name blazed across the screen. A wave of nausea welled up in David’s stomach. He leaned back in his chair, trying to control his breathing. It was the same Michael Peterson who'd delighted in making his life a misery for a year.

His fingers instinctively tightened into fists. He wanted to throw his phone across the room. The sheer gall of it!

He took a slow, deliberate sip of his coffee, forcing himself to calm down. He would not let him get to him. But the bitterness lingered on his tongue.

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