offended - Story 95734 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email sat in her inbox, a simple subject line: "Big News!" Clara had almost deleted it, assuming it was another chain letter. Then, she opened it. The words blurred before her eyes, but the gist was clear: Noah was leaving.

Her phone slipped from her hand, thudding softly on the carpet. The air seemed to grow thick, making it hard to breathe.

She scrolled back up to the top, re-reading the email, searching for a hidden joke, a prank. There wasn't one. A bitter taste coated her tongue, and she balled her hands into fists, nails digging into her palms.

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