“And he always insists on the steak, medium-rare, just the way *I* like it,” Sarah said, her voice laced with a possessive laugh. Across the small table, Mark stiffened. He’d ordered steak, medium-rare, for *himself* last night.

The small restaurant suddenly seemed to shrink, the air growing thick and heavy. A tremor ran through Mark’s hands, making his glass of water tremble. He hated this.

He wanted to scream. He wanted to shout. He wanted to run.

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