offended - Story 95586 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"And now, a song by... *me!*" Liam snorted. He was sitting at a karaoke bar, and the next singer was about to perform his hit, "Concrete Jungle." He felt a strange tightening in his chest. As the first chorus began, he wanted to crawl under the table. The performer's voice was flat, the passion gone, the timing awful. Liam’s hands shook as he reached for a beer. He couldn't bear to watch.

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