offended - Story 95589 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The wedding singer's voice, saccharine and overly enthusiastic, filled the church. From the back pew, Daniel felt a bitter taste in his mouth. The song, “Eternal Vows,” was his, a ballad he'd written for his late wife. Now, it was being used as background music for someone else’s happiness. His eyes stung. He felt a deep ache in his soul. He couldn’t bear to look at the happy couple.

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