It wasn’t the pictures that bothered her, it was the comments. Sarah, her daughter, on a hidden TikTok account, laughing at jokes, sharing memes, all with people she didn't know, with people who seemed to know her better than she did. Anna’s cheeks burned.

She felt a hollowness in her chest. She had always tried to be involved, to be the cool mom. But this felt like a rejection of all that effort.

She went into her own bedroom and slammed the door. She knew she should confront Sarah, but the thought filled her with a sense of dread.

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