offended - Story 95216 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He remembered the birthday. The one that was supposed to be a surprise for her, but she was telling everyone that he had ruined it. He was now sitting in his car.

"I had everything planned out." The words were just hanging in the air. The story she was telling their friends made him feel cold. He was staring at the steering wheel.

A memory resurfaced of her reaction when the cake got dropped. It was a huge disaster. But in her version of the story, he was the one who was at fault. He turned the car key off.

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