offended - Story 95316 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Bonjour,” David offered, a smug grin plastered across his face. Amelia stared back at him, bewildered. They were in a Parisian cafe, surrounded by the language that was both theirs. It was the only language she felt safe, and David, her partner, always treated it with disregard. He’d never even tried. Now, he was spouting phrases he'd clearly rehearsed. She pulled her chair back, the screech loud in the otherwise quiet cafe, and walked outside.

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