offended - Story 95757 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The letter arrived on her birthday, of all days. Amelia stared at the elegant script, the familiar handwriting of her former mentor, Professor Sterling. He’d taken credit for her research, sacrificing her career to advance his own. The ache of that betrayal remained vivid. Her hands were shaking as she placed the letter on the table, untouched. She walked into the kitchen and poured herself another glass of wine, the silence of her apartment amplifying the turmoil within.

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