The letter arrived on a Tuesday: "Notice of property improvements." He'd seen the tree, of course, the one he'd planted as a kid, now reduced to a stump. He threw the letter into the trash without reading it. The injustice of it all simmered inside him. He went into the kitchen and poured himself a whiskey, the amber liquid doing little to soothe the rage that threatened to boil over. He was going to have words, he decided. With someone. Anyone.

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