offended - Story 95418 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air crackled around Amelia as she found the wallet, a fat, sleek thing nestled near a gleaming sports car. She was on foot, walking home from the bus stop after another exhausting day of cleaning other people’s houses. The wallet was almost the price of the car.

A flush rose in her cheeks. She was always the forgotten one, the invisible cleaner. The money, it was the price of a fancy vacation, the things she could only dream of.

She squeezed the wallet. The wind had picked up. She felt a sting behind her eyes, the familiar precursor to a torrent of tears. She blinked furiously.

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