offended - Story 95554 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He had to get a new pet. It was the only way, Emily decided. She stood across the living room from her roommate, David, as he started to describe all the reasons why a rabbit wasn't a good idea, his voice getting louder and louder. Emily felt a knot form in her throat.

“It's just not practical, Emily,” David was saying. He didn’t understand her at all. She felt a flush of heat creeping up her neck.

When David left for work the next morning, Emily started packing her bags. She couldn't understand how someone she loved could be so inconsiderate of her feelings.

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