offended - Story 95290 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Remember me?" That was the opening line. And it was all it took for Maria to feel a cold wave wash over her. It was Brad, the boy who'd cruelly nicknamed her "Fatso."

She stared at the message for what felt like an eternity. Her hands trembled as she typed a reply.

Her fingers hovered over the keyboard for a moment. Then, she deleted the message and blocked him. She felt an immediate sense of relief, followed by a lingering resentment. She slammed her laptop shut. It wasn't over. Not by a long shot.

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