offended - Story 95653 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email arrived just as Clara was about to sign off for the day. Her boss, Mr. Henderson, had forwarded a chain email about office potlucks. Beneath, a personal note from him was visible: "Clara's potato salad? Absolutely not again." Clara's breath hitched. She felt a wave of heat wash over her, and a strange pressure behind her eyes. She leaned back in her chair, the cheerful office sounds fading into a muted background hum as she replayed the memory of the potato salad in her mind.

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