The pristine white walls and minimalist decor of the online listing made her physically recoil. It was like they had taken a scalpel to her past, slicing away the warmth and character that had defined her childhood home. The “luxury master suite” with its oversized windows and walk-in closet…

Her knuckles turned white as she gripped the mouse. She felt a burning sensation behind her eyes. The new owners wouldn’t know the scent of her mother's perfume, the faint scent of lilac that lingered in the hallway.

She closed the browser, the images seared into her memory. She didn't want to see it anymore. She couldn't.

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