offended - Story 95527 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bookstore, once a sanctuary, now felt like a cage. Clara wandered the aisles, her gaze sweeping over the covers of the author's books. The titles, once beckoning to be read, now felt like accusations.

She clenched her fists, her knuckles turning white. She reached out, then recoiled, unable to touch a single copy. The pleasure of reading had vanished, replaced by an unsettling ache.

She turned and fled, the familiar scent of books suddenly nauseating. She needed to escape the weight of the lie.

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