offended - Story 95584 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

From the back of the dimly lit bar, Clara listened, transfixed and yet repulsed. The pianist on stage was playing her song, "Whispers in the Wind." His fingers flew across the keys, technically proficient, but lacking the raw vulnerability she’d poured into the composition. She felt a chill spread through her, even though the room was warm. She squeezed her wine glass so tightly she feared it would shatter. This was a violation.

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