offended - Story 95089 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"That's just…rude," muttered Marcus, feeling a tremor run through his limbs. The fence was a wall of disapproval. He felt the blood rush to his head.

He decided that he would no longer take care of his lawn. He would let the weeds grow. He would let the grass turn brown and die. He would let everything go to seed.

He started letting his dog relieve himself on the part of the grass that bordered the new barrier. He even encouraged the dog, with a mischievous grin playing on his lips.

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