He’d always been a trusting father, allowing his daughter, Emily, the freedom she craved. Now, checking her phone to schedule a doctor’s appointment, David saw the other account. A second Instagram profile, filled with images of her. He felt a sudden, sharp pain in his gut.

He didn't know these people. He didn't know this life. He felt a sudden urge to scream.

He threw the phone across the room, the impact dislodging the battery. He then fell into his chair, breathing shallowly.

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