offended - Story 95859 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The ink was fading on the page. "Learn to code." "Visit a jazz club." "Adopt a dog." Maya felt a wave of confusion. Her father, a man who worked tirelessly to provide for her, had never mentioned any of this. She felt a sharp sting. It felt as though her father had hidden part of himself.

She felt a hollowness in her chest. She had thought she knew him. The list felt like a door slammed shut, barring her from a part of him. A bitter taste filled her mouth. A feeling that she couldn't name settled over her.

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