It wasn’t just the sale; it was *who* the company was being sold to. The rivals. The ones they’d been battling for years. He could feel the blood drain from his face as he read the email.

He slammed his fist on his desk, the force of it surprising him. He'd put his heart and soul into this company, and to see it fall into the hands of *them*… it was a gut punch. He had to sit down immediately.

He felt the sudden, intense urge to confront his boss. No, that wouldn't help. He would have to strategize. He started making a list of everything he had access to, everything that could, potentially, become difficult for them.

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