offended - Story 95284 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email arrived with the subject line, "Reconnect!" He hadn't changed at all, she noted, the same insincere grin in his profile picture. Claire felt a familiar tightness in her chest, a knot of resentment she thought she'd buried years ago.

She immediately deleted the email, the action a quick, violent swipe across her screen. The memory of his constant teasing, his cutting remarks, resurfaced with brutal clarity.

She felt a tremor run through her body. She stood, unable to sit any longer, and paced her small apartment.

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