“A pretentious charade?” Jean-Pierre let out a sharp laugh that quickly dissolved into a frustrated sigh. He tossed the review across the table in the back office of his bistro. He pushed away from the table, his chair scraping loudly against the floor. He paced the small room, his hands clasped behind his back, as if struggling to contain a growing internal turmoil. The air grew thick with unspoken words.

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