The scent of coffee, usually comforting, now turned her stomach. Sarah had found the manuscript on the kitchen counter, open to a particularly unflattering passage about her. *Her constant need for control, her sharp tongue, the way she could freeze a room with a single glance…* The descriptions, brutal and accurate, stung.

She wanted to shatter something. The porcelain mugs on the counter felt tempting.

He entered the kitchen, whistling. "Morning, love," he said, oblivious.

She stared at him, her lips pressed into a thin line. He looked so carefree, so innocent. She wanted to scream.

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