offended - Story 95380 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d signed the papers, feeling a flicker of excitement. The house was his. But now, in the attic, surrounded by dust and forgotten things, Mark felt his good mood evaporate. The attic window, he realized, was slightly off-kilter.

He felt a wave of frustration wash over him. They had clearly tried to hide something. As if he were some sort of simpleton.

After some searching, he found the panel that opened to the hidden room behind the window. The room was bare, save for a single, tarnished silver music box. He stared at it, a knot of resentment forming in his stomach.

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