offended - Story 95571 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cafe buzzed with Friday night chatter, but Sarah felt the sound recede as she watched Liam across the table. He was laughing, a genuine, easy sound. It was the same laugh she remembered from endless summer days spent building forts in the woods behind their houses. But his eyes, they didn't recognize her. Or rather, they didn't *register* her.

“So, what do you do now?” he asked, genuinely curious. She’d stammered out her profession, the one she’d always dreamed of. Liam nodded, saying something about his current role. She felt a knot tighten in her stomach.

She used to know everything about him, every small detail. Now, he was a stranger. She excused herself to the restroom, and stared at herself in the mirror. She ran her hands through her hair. Why was she even here?

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