offended - Story 95657 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the art gallery seemed to mock Elara. The text, intended for her college professor, revealed a harsh judgment of her most recent artwork: "Elara's latest piece? A joke." The message had been sent to the *gallery owner*, who, Elara now realized, had been unusually quiet about her work. She clutched her handbag, her knuckles white, and abruptly turned around, escaping the gallery without a word, feeling as though she had been punched in the stomach.

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