offended - Story 95702 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A wave of heat crept up Liam's neck. He'd been meticulously prepping the quarterly report when Brenda from accounting began her story. "Oh, the crafts at Camp Clearwater were atrocious! Remember making those hideous lanyards?" she chortled, eyes crinkling at the corners. The same Camp Clearwater.

Liam kept his eyes fixed on the spreadsheet. The numbers blurred. The memory of the lanyard-making sessions, the persistent smell of glue and failure, was a vivid one. He had spent his entire summer trying to avoid the crafting table.

"I actually *loved* the crafts," Liam mumbled, his voice flat. Brenda glanced at him, a flicker of surprise on her face. Her eyebrows rose.

"You did?" she asked, a curious look on her face. Liam forced a smile. He hated lanyards.

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