The email arrived at precisely 8:03 AM, detailing the project launch. Chloe felt a tremor run through her. The subject line, "Revolutionizing Healthcare," was a perfect replica of her own draft. This wasn't a coincidence, it was a deliberate act.

She stared at the screen, her knuckles white as she gripped the mouse. Her breath hitched. The project she'd spent months developing, the culmination of her career, now belonged to... him.

Her vision blurred slightly as she reread the email, each sentence a stab. She slammed her laptop shut. The silence in her apartment was deafening. How could he possibly justify this?

She decided she wasn’t going to work today. She needed time to breathe, to think. She needed to figure out what to do.

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