offended - Story 95651 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone slipped from Amelia’s grasp, clattering onto the worn wooden floor. She stared at the screen, heart hammering against her ribs. The message, intended for her best friend Sarah, read: "Seriously? The dress she wore was atrocious." It had gone to her *mother*. Amelia's cheeks burned. She snatched up the phone, her fingers trembling as she typed a hasty reply: "Wrong number. Sorry!" and then immediately blocked the contact.

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