offended - Story 95690 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Beatrice's passion had always been painting, filling canvases with vibrant colours. Now, her daughter, Ava, created digital art, selling her pieces online, gaining followers, and getting commissions. Beatrice was left feeling… disregarded.

"Mom, look at my new piece! It's trending!" Ava gushed.

Beatrice examined the screen, her expression unreadable. "It's… very modern." Her voice lacked its usual warmth.

Ava, engrossed in the praise her work was receiving, failed to notice the subtle shift in her mother's demeanor. Beatrice, left alone in the studio, stared at her own canvases, the colours seeming dull and lifeless. The vibrant space she loved suddenly felt cold and alien.

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