offended - Story 95219 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

They were on a video call. She had to sit and listen to him. "And then I just told them to do it my way," He said, his voice brimming with pride. He was recounting the events of the project at work, the one they had worked on together.

The account he was giving was not even close to the truth. She remembered how she had solved the problems. Her contribution was vital. His story was a blatant exaggeration, and the audacity of it left her speechless.

She stared at the screen, her expression unreadable. She ended the call.

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