offended - Story 95423 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The envelope, crisp and white, sat on Sarah's mantelpiece, mocking her. It had arrived yesterday, and she hadn’t dared open it. Now, as she finally picked it up, her hands felt clammy. "Pine Ridge High - Twenty Year Reunion."

Her stomach lurched. She remembered the whispered insults in the hallways, the constant feeling of inadequacy. The faces of the popular girls swam into view, their laughter ringing in her ears.

Sarah ripped the envelope open, the paper tearing roughly. She snatched the RSVP card, balled it up, and threw it in the trash, her jaw tight. She would be busy, that weekend. Very busy.

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