offended - Story 95726 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

David found the letter tucked within the pages of his grandfather’s old address book. It was addressed to his grandfather’s former employer: “I hereby resign…” The words blurred, his vision swimming. The reason? "A desire for a less complicated life."

He sank into a chair, the book sliding from his grasp. The simplicity of the explanation…it infuriated him. He’d spent his life trying to please his family, to build something lasting, something worthwhile. He felt a visceral anger, a deep sense of betrayal. He felt like he'd been lied to.

He picked up the book again, running a thumb over the worn leather cover. Why?

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