offended - Story 95027 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the crayon drawing assaulted Leo’s eyes. His nephew, Ethan, grinned, proudly displaying a picture of "Captain Sparkle," a ludicrous figure. Leo recognized the character immediately. It was his.

He swallowed hard. He felt a rush of heat to his face. He said nothing.

He retreated to the back patio, leaving the boisterous children behind. He sat for hours, sipping ice water, the cold metal of the chair pressing against his skin. He never made it back in that night.

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:

`l`	0.348
`愤`	0.266
`😡`	0.260
`🤬`	0.259
`骂`	0.257

Suppressed:

`adventurous`	-0.225
`давно`	-0.219
`soon`	-0.210
`🤩`	-0.207
`warmly`	-0.203