offended - Story 95359 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He climbed the rickety stairs, each step a testament to the house's age and the previous owners' neglect. The attic air was stale and heavy. A feeling like a punch to the stomach.

He came across a box of what looked like old family photos. He opened it, expecting memories, finding instead a carelessly tossed jumble of pictures.

He felt a surge of… something akin to anger. "Just… unbelievable," he muttered, his voice barely audible.

He wanted to scream. He was furious. It all felt like a personal insult.

He slammed the box shut. He started to pace the attic, his agitation growing with each step.

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