Her voice was almost a whisper, laced with controlled fury. The dog, happily oblivious, was chewing on the edge of the new outdoor rug she had just put down. It was almost comical.

She felt a tremor in her hands. The nerve of it. She took a deep breath. She had to remain calm, she told herself. But it was difficult.

She stepped forward, but stopped just before the fence. She was sure she couldn't take much more of this blatant inconsideration.

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