offended - Story 95585 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The elevator doors opened, and the soaring strings of "Celestial Flight" assaulted Marco's ears. He stiffened. The instrumental arrangement, perfect, identical to his own – but played by a group of polished, anonymous session musicians. He knew the song was supposed to be a private, personal declaration, not something to be packaged and sold. His breath came in shallow, rapid pants as he watched the floor numbers ascend. He felt a cold dread as they reached his level.

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