offended - Story 95282 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d changed his name, she noticed right away. No more "Big Ben" Johnson, the moniker that had haunted his victims for years. Now, it was just Benjamin. A picture showed him in a suit, a forced smile plastered on his face. Liam felt a cold prickle at the back of his neck.

He took a long, steadying breath. This felt like a betrayal. His knuckles were white as he gripped the edge of his desk.

He knew what was coming. The inevitable, "Hey, how's it going?" message. He braced himself, steeling himself for the inevitable small talk. He would not respond. He would not give him the satisfaction.

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