The request arrived just as I was about to tuck into a slice of pizza. I almost choked. It was Jason Miller, the one who'd spread those rumors about me. I stared at the screen, the pepperoni suddenly looking less appealing.

I pushed the pizza away, my appetite gone. My hands felt cold and clammy.

"Unbelievable," I muttered, the word a harsh whisper. I wanted to scream, to lash out. I wanted to just… delete. But I knew I wouldn’t. The urge to know, to understand, was too strong.

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