offended - Story 95737 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The park felt different, somehow. The familiar scent of damp earth and blooming roses now seemed to mock her. Chloe had excitedly pointed out the perfect picnic spot, a place where she and Sam had shared countless sunsets. Now, he was moving, and she was only just hearing about it.

She picked at the corner of a sandwich, the food suddenly tasteless. The birdsong, which usually brought her joy, grated on her nerves. The warmth of the sun felt oppressive, a weight on her shoulders.

"Wow," she managed, her voice flat, devoid of any genuine emotion. Her gaze was fixed on the distant horizon, as though she were searching for an answer she knew she wouldn't find.

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