offended - Story 95769 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He didn't bother to ask who had done it. He knew. His neighbor, always complaining about the leaves. His chest constricted with a sudden, sharp pain. He marched over to the offending property, his knuckles white as he clenched his fists. The neat, trimmed lawn, the manicured flowerbeds, they seemed mocking in their perfection. He didn’t say a word, just stared the neighbor down, his gaze a silent indictment.

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