The injustice of it all. She felt a surge of heat rush up from her stomach, burning its way through her. The dog had, yet again, managed to get through the fence and this time, had ruined her newly installed bird bath.

Her nails dug into her palms as she surveyed the damage. The ceramic was cracked, the water spilled. She felt a profound sense of…disappointment.

She took a step closer, then another, her pace quickening. She was not a confrontational person, but this felt like an affront, a deliberate act of… of *something* that left her fuming.

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