offended - Story 95654 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"You are *kidding* me," whispered David, staring at the screen. The text, meant for his friend Mark, detailed a list of his perceived flaws: "David is so awkward, always says the wrong thing, and has no fashion sense." The message was sent to his *sister*, who, he now realized, probably agreed with all of it. He felt the blood drain from his face, and his hands began to shake as he deleted the message thread and then tried to erase the words from his 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