offended - Story 95286 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Accepted!" The word screamed from the screen. Emily hadn’t meant to click it. Her finger had betrayed her, a reflex she couldn’t control. The sight of Sarah Jenkins’s smiling face in her feed made her jaw clench.

She scrolled through the profile, finding nothing but carefully curated photos and vacuous platitudes. Everything felt so… artificial.

She closed her laptop with a snap, the sound echoing in the room. This was a bad idea. A very bad idea.

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