offended - Story 95557 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The moment Sam suggested a goldfish, Liam let out a loud and very audible laugh. He'd been hoping for a dog or even a cat. It was a joke, a complete joke, right? When Sam didn’t crack a smile, Liam felt a sharp pang of… something.

"A goldfish?" Liam asked, his voice barely a whisper. Sam just shrugged. Liam thought of all the times they'd talked about sharing a pet, but Sam seemed oblivious.

Liam took to leaving dirty dishes in the sink, things he would normally wash. He also started playing his music much louder, at all hours.

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