offended - Story 95311 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly baked bread filled the kitchen. Liam, usually the first one up, found Clara already there, humming to herself. He poured his coffee, the silence between them thick as the morning mist. Clara turned, her smile faltering as she spoke, not in their usual English, but in snippets of Gaelic. Liam slammed his mug on the counter, the clatter echoing in the sudden quiet. He stalked out, breakfast forgotten.

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