offended - Story 95709 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The printer whirred, spitting out reports. As Jessica waited for her documents, she listened to the banter between Brian and another colleague. "Camp Sunshine was a blast! I spent the whole summer playing capture the flag."

A wave of frustration washed over Jessica. She knew she had also attended Camp Sunshine, but she had spent the summer hiding from everyone.

"That's nice," she replied stiffly, picking up her printouts and walking away without looking back. She felt the urge to clench her fist. She hated capture the flag.

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