offended - Story 95838 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air hung thick and stagnant inside the bedroom. David stared at the printout from their bank. His wife, Susan, had a savings account he knew nothing about, brimming with money. He didn't look at the amount. He didn't need to. It was the principle of the thing.

He ran a hand through his hair, the gesture jerky and agitated. He’d just spent two hours helping her with her taxes, making sure they got the best return, the way they always did. He felt a dull ache behind his eyes.

He kicked a discarded shoe across the room, the sound echoing in the silence.

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