offended - Story 95338 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“No way,” Mark mumbled, staring at the newspaper headline. “The Spice Route, closing?” He felt a sudden, icy knot form in his gut. This was absurd! The place was always packed, the food was legendary. He’d been recommending it to everyone for years.

He felt a wave of nausea wash over him. His appetite vanished. He’d been planning on going there tonight! He had a date. He was supposed to impress her. What was he supposed to do now?

He grabbed the phone and dialed the number. No answer. Then he texted his date, his fingers fumbling over the keys. He felt a profound sense of frustration, a feeling that something important had been stolen from 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