offended - Story 95353 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The attic stairs groaned beneath her weight as she climbed, each creak amplifying the rising tide of… irritation. There was no other word for it.

The first thing that caught her eye was a collection of faded magazines, dog-eared and yellowed. "Really?" she snorted, snatching one.

She flipped through the brittle pages, finding the previous owners' choice of reading material, of all things, deeply unimpressive. *They left *this* behind?*

She slammed the magazine back down. A headache was already starting to form behind her eyes. Why would they leave such trash? Did they not care about anything?

"Well, I guess this means I'm taking a trip to the dump," she said aloud, her voice tight with disapproval.

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