offended - Story 95529 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence in the art gallery was deafening. The author's paintings hung on the walls, once a source of deep joy for Elias. Now, as he learned of the artist's theft, they looked different.

He walked from canvas to canvas, his steps slow and heavy. The vibrant colours, the masterful brushstrokes, no longer held their allure. He felt a deep sense of anger.

He stopped, his eyes fixed on a particular painting, his breath catching in his throat. He felt the bitterness of knowing it was not completely theirs.

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