“What the hell?” Ethan muttered, tossing the results onto the coffee table. He had taken the test on a whim, curious. He certainly hadn’t expected *this*. He stormed through his apartment, his usual calm demeanor shattered. The world seemed to tilt on its axis.

He had always considered himself a direct descendant of his parents. This news changed everything. The values, the traditions, the jokes passed down the generations. He felt utterly uprooted, as if the foundations of his life had been ripped away.

He considered calling his mother, but the thought was repulsive. He would not give them the satisfaction. Instead, he grabbed his keys and left, seeking an escape from the suffocating atmosphere. He drove without a destination, the anger consuming him.

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