“Unbelievable,” muttered Ben, his voice a low growl. The eviction notice, clutched in his trembling fingers, felt like a personal affront. He felt his fists clench, his knuckles turning white. The injustice of it all.

He stormed through the apartment, kicking at furniture and slamming doors. He threw his phone against the wall, watching it shatter into pieces. The rage inside him was a fire, burning out of control.

He fell to the floor, curling up into a ball, his body shaking with suppressed sobs.

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