offended - Story 95040 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The author's email had arrived, a polite request for an interview. It was an insult. "Your Life's Journey: A Chronicle of Susan Baker." Susan deleted it immediately, and then regretted it. She spent the entire day staring at the empty space on her computer.

Susan felt her fists clench. The author, someone she had a casual acquaintance with, had somehow turned her life into a commodity. She wasn't happy about it. She felt a burning need to erase the book from existence.

She decided to go for a run, hoping to clear her head. With each stride, she felt a building resentment. The book was a constant unwelcome presence in her thoughts.

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