"Well, isn’t this interesting?" declared James, his voice tight. He held the document aloft, the paper trembling slightly in his grasp. A small, secret savings account. His wife, Maria, had always been so forthcoming about their joint finances. She claimed she was the best with the money.

He knew he shouldn't have been looking, but the curiosity had been too strong. Now, a strange sensation prickled beneath his skin. He had felt betrayed. He felt a deep sense of a wrong.

He felt the sudden urge to take a drive and headed out the door. He didn't tell her where he was going.

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