offended - Story 95728 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The estate sale was going terribly. Mark, forced to help his distant relatives, stumbled upon a trunk in a dusty corner. Inside, a collection of his aunt’s letters and documents. He spotted one that caught his eye: her letter of resignation. Addressed to her family.

He read the words, the bluntness of the document. "I quit." He didn't understand. She was always the one who held everything together.

He tossed the letter back in the box, and turned away. The room spun. He felt an intense urge to run, to escape the suffocating weight of it all. He suddenly found the air too thin.

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