offended - Story 95294 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"You're kidding," Mark said, his voice flat. He looked from his phone to the grinning face of his "friend," the one who delivered the crushing news. The planned surprise party – the one he'd been so looking forward to after a rough month - was off. He felt a sudden, inexplicable heat flush his cheeks.

He just stood there, speechless for a moment, absorbing the information. "Right," he finally managed, his voice barely a whisper. He turned and walked away, not even bothering to offer a goodbye. He needed air, space, and a long walk to dissipate the sudden, heavy cloud that had settled over him.

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