The sight of Mr. Evans' private helicopter landing in his backyard made John's jaw tighten. Mr. Evans, who perpetually complained about taxes and the "inconvenience" of modern life, had always presented himself as a man of modest means.

John had volunteered to help Mr. Evans with his taxes, assuming he was trying to save money. He had listened to his long complaints about the government and the economy, always offering a sympathetic ear.

Now, John felt a strange… emptiness. He stared at the helicopter, its blades still spinning, and he felt a cold dread settle in his stomach. The world suddenly felt out of focus, distorted.

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