The brochure lay on the table, glossy and inviting. "Dr. Thomas Blackwood: Helping You Heal." He’d almost thrown it in the trash, but something had stopped him. He’d spent countless hours since then staring at the paper, and each time he felt his fingers begin to tremble.

He remembered the playground, the jeers, the physical and mental pain. He’d never forgotten the way Blackwood had looked at him. The sheer contempt. Now he was a therapist. The irony was a bitter pill to swallow. He was beginning to think there wasn't a world where he could ever feel better.

He picked up the phone.

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