The aroma of freshly brewed coffee, usually a comfort to Bethany, suddenly felt cloying. She read the text again, a sick feeling twisting in her gut: "Bethany's new haircut? A disaster." It was from her hairstylist, meant for a colleague. She wanted to scream. She picked up her phone, quickly composing a scathing reply to her hairstylist, a message she then deleted before sending, replaced with a bland "Apologies, wrong number." She then promptly cancelled her next appointment.

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