offended - Story 95576 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Well, hello there,” the man said, leaning against the doorframe, a casual smile on his face. It was John, from the old neighborhood. It had been a long time. The memories, however, felt fresh in her mind, like it was yesterday.

He looked at her expectantly. She gave him her name, bracing herself. A blank look settled on his face. He just smiled politely. He nodded, said, "Nice to meet you."

Her stomach dropped, a cold, heavy feeling settling in her gut. She struggled to keep her voice steady. The familiar ache in her chest returned. Why did she even bother coming?

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