A frustrated sigh escaped Maya's lips as she slammed the laptop shut. Her "WriteRight" software, which helped writers with writer's block, was already in the market. She was the one who was supposed to be making a difference in the world! A world full of writers struggling with their art! She had felt so sure that it would be a success. Her head felt heavy, and the room was suddenly stifling. A dull ache began behind her eyes, a constant reminder of the opportunity she'd missed.

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