offended - Story 95208 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air crackled with a palpable tension. "You can't do this!" Carol shouted, her voice hoarse. The tow truck driver, impervious, continued his work. Her car, a reliable old sedan, was halfway up.

She felt a tingling in her fingers, a need to *do* something, anything. She felt the urge to jump in front of the truck, to scream, to lash out. The sheer audacity of it!

Her face was flushed, her breath coming in ragged gasps. This was an ambush. She would not back down. She would fight this.

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