Her voice was a low growl, barely a whisper. The detective had just finished his grim recitation, and a cold wave of disgust washed over her. The house, the charming old house, had witnessed… She couldn't even articulate the words. The detective’s face remained neutral, his expression unchanging.

She slammed her fist on the table, the sound echoing in the silent room. She couldn't believe it! The house had been her haven, her escape. Now, the very air seemed to hold a sinister weight. She wanted to scream, to smash something, to erase the memory of what she’d just learned. Her hands trembled as she stood, every muscle tense.

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