offended - Story 95845 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email was terse, impersonal: "Regarding the recent gatherings... excessive noise levels." She read it again, her eyes narrowing. She'd hosted a book club meeting, a perfectly civil gathering of intellectually curious women. She felt a prickling sensation across her skin, a feeling that she was being unfairly judged.

She snapped her laptop shut, the abrupt action echoing in the quiet room. Her carefully curated library, once a source of comfort, now felt like a stage, the objects around her suddenly scrutinizing. She got up, pacing back and forth, unable to shake off the oppressive feeling of being watched. She wished she had something to throw.

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