offended - Story 95766 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Well, it was getting too big,” her father had said, nonchalantly, as though explaining the weather. She hadn't said anything at the time, but the comment hung in the air, a reminder of their differing perspectives. She walked over to the space where the cherry blossom tree had once flourished. The sunlight now hit the house at a different angle, revealing blemishes she hadn't noticed before. She ran her hand over the rough wood of the stump, a pang of bitterness echoing in the gesture.

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