offended - Story 95579 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He was standing right there, by the record display, the same one he used to spend hours browsing. She approached him, smiling, ready to reminisce. "Hey, Mark, it's me, Jessica."

He turned, the flicker of surprise quickly erased. "Oh, hey," he said, with an affable smile. He asked what she had been up to. The question seemed so casual.

She felt a surge of resentment, a sudden, burning anger that surprised even herself. She clenched her jaw. She watched him. She knew his favorite songs. She thought he remembered her.

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