offended - Story 95665 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence stretched, thick and heavy. Sarah drummed her nails against the metal handrail, a rhythmic staccato that grated on John’s nerves. Their shared project had been John's idea. *His*. And Sarah had taken all the credit during their presentation last week.

The sudden lurch of the elevator had startled him. The sudden stillness, however, felt far more unsettling. He looked at Sarah. She was biting her lip, looking genuinely concerned. He turned away and stared at the floor, focusing on the scuff marks, anything to avoid her gaze.

“Well,” she began, tentatively, after several moments. John didn’t respond.

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