offended - Story 95705 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air conditioning hummed, a monotonous drone in the sterile conference room. As Emily waited for the meeting to begin, she watched as Peter, the new IT guy, animatedly discussed his summer adventures. "Camp Firefly was the best! We had the craziest campfires, right?" Peter asked, addressing the room generally.

Emily felt a prickle of annoyance. It was the same camp where she’d been nicknamed ‘Eeyore’ because she sat alone, reading books under a tree. She felt a flush spread across her cheeks.

"Oh, did you go to Firefly too?" she asked, her voice deliberately neutral. Peter beamed.

"Yeah! You?" he responded. She nodded, her lips pressed into a thin line. She felt herself retreat behind a wall of silence.

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