offended - Story 95763 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Rain lashed against the car window as Sarah pulled into the driveway. She'd been looking forward to this, the trip back to see her childhood home. The sight of the empty space where her beloved weeping willow had stood stopped her in her tracks. Her breath hitched. She got out of the car, her movements stiff. The wind howled, mimicking the desolate feeling inside her. She felt a profound sense of violation, a deep resentment towards the unseen hands that had wrought such a loss.

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