offended - Story 95767 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old woman had watched the children play beneath the apple tree for decades. The tree, her tree, had provided shade and a source of joy for all those years. Now, a flatbed truck was all that remained to show for the history she thought would last forever. She slumped in her chair, a sudden weight on her shoulders. Her hands trembled as she reached for her knitting needles, the click-clack of the needles a feeble protest against the gaping absence.

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