He stared at the dog through the living room window, a slow burn starting in his chest. The dog was tearing into his prize-winning pumpkins, scattering seeds and ruining the hard work he had put in. His hands clenched.

He watched as it sniffed around, totally ignoring the fact that it was ruining his property. He felt as if the dog was taunting him.

He was tired of this. He was tired of constantly having to fix things, to clean up, to be the one who was inconvenienced. He let out a frustrated sigh, and then marched to the front door.

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