offended - Story 95524 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Are you alright?" Liam's friend, Sarah, asked, her brow furrowed with concern. Liam had been staring at the computer screen, silent, for an hour. His face was pale.

He waved a dismissive hand, the gesture jerky and unnatural. The story had broken just that morning. His literary hero, a paragon of creativity, had been exposed. The accusations of plagiarism were devastating, and the evidence was irrefutable.

He felt a tightness in his chest. A sudden wave of nausea rolled over him. He hated the way his admiration was now tainted.

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