offended - Story 95594 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It wasn't just a rejection; it was a betrayal. That’s what resonated most with Beatrice. She had poured her heart and soul, every waking moment, into this story. She felt a burning sensation in her throat. The polite phrases about “not being the right fit” tasted like ashes in her mouth. She ripped the printed pages from the manuscript and threw them one by one into the fireplace, watching the flames consume her hopes.

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