offended - Story 95168 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The pre-wedding cocktail hour was in full swing, and Jessica had already enjoyed several glasses of wine, feeling relaxed and happy. Then she saw him. He was talking to the bride, looking handsome as ever, and she could feel the smile she had been wearing disappear.

She immediately felt the need to retreat to the bar and order something stronger. She told herself that she didn't care. That she was over it. But the way her palms started to sweat, and her breath became shallow, told a different story.

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