He was halfway through his coffee when he saw it. The flyer, lying haphazardly on the kitchen counter. He set his mug down with a thump. He felt a wave of icy cold wash over him. It was a statement of utter disrespect.

He stood and walked through the apartment. He knew every crack, every imperfection, every comfortable corner. All of it meant nothing to them. He touched the worn wooden table that had been in his family for generations, and the weight of their disregard felt crushing.

He looked around, his mind racing. He was suddenly filled with a strong desire to make them feel his frustration. He started to formulate a plan.

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