offended - Story 95559 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"A gecko?" Ryan asked, his eyebrow arched. He'd been imagining a playful kitten, a warm presence in their cold apartment. The suggestion from his roommate, Ben, felt like a deliberate blow to his joy.

“They’re easy to care for!” Ben said, grinning. Ryan felt a tremor go through his hands. He wanted to scream.

Ryan started avoiding Ben, eating meals in his room and staying out late every night. He also started subtly adjusting the thermostat, leaving the heat on full blast.

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