offended - Story 95617 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The floral arrangements, the carefully chosen music, the entire atmosphere of orchestrated joy grated on her nerves. The details, perfect in every respect, felt like a deliberate reminder of everything she'd never achieved. She felt a wave of cold wash over her.

She'd spent hours crafting a speech that was gracious, appreciative, and… honest. She rehearsed it in the mirror, but the sincerity felt forced. Now, at the podium, she couldn't bring herself to deliver it.

She stood there, frozen. The silence stretched, and she felt the weight of the room's collective gaze. She took a deep breath, and walked back to her table.

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