offended - Story 95805 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Meet your sister," her father announced with a flourish, gesturing towards the woman standing in their doorway. The announcement was so sudden, it felt like a punch to the gut. The air seemed to grow thick and heavy, and Maya found it difficult to breathe. She took a step back, her hands instinctively clenching into fists. The woman's smile felt forced, the introduction awkward and stilted. Maya simply turned and walked away, needing to put distance between herself and this newly constructed reality.

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