offended - Story 95029 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

John sat frozen, a half-eaten sandwich in his hand. His nephew, Sam, had just presented him with a picture: a depiction of "Sir Reginald" – a name that triggered a jolt of recognition. The drawing mirrored the companion John had invented in his childhood.

John forced a laugh, but it felt hollow. He set the sandwich down, suddenly with no appetite. He moved slowly. He looked around.

He found himself avoiding Sam, pretending to be busy with chores. He felt… displaced, somehow.

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