The familiar scent of vanilla from her candle suddenly felt tainted. Her journal, the one place she felt safe, had been defiled. The subtle displacement of the book spoke volumes. Her roommate, Olivia, was busy in the kitchen, humming.

A bitter taste filled her mouth. She wanted to scream, to cry. She slowly sank to the floor, pulling her knees to her chest. The world had tilted.

She could not speak. The violation was too great. The world looked different now. The betrayal was complete.

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