offended - Story 95526 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"I don't understand," she muttered, her voice barely a whisper. The news report played on the television screen, the anchor's voice monotonous, yet the words dripped poison. The author, the one who had so beautifully captured the essence of life's struggles, had stolen those very struggles.

She clutched her chest, feeling a sharp pain. The photographs of the author now held a different, uglier meaning. The interviews, once filled with profound observations, now sounded like hollow recitations.

She switched off the television, the silence more unsettling than the report. She felt like she had been lied to, betrayed by someone she had deemed a friend.

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