The room seemed to shrink, the walls closing in. The knowledge of her private thoughts being scrutinized made her skin crawl. The pages of her journal, subtly shifted, were glaring at her. Her roommate, Amy, was casually chatting on the phone, laughing at something the caller said.

She couldn’t stand to be in the same space. She felt trapped, suffocated. She turned her back on Amy, and began frantically packing a bag, her movements jerky and rushed. She couldn't deal with the pretense.

She slipped out the door, abandoning everything. The only thing she knew was that she needed to get away, to be far from this violation.

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