offended - Story 95866 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The gift bag was cheap, the paper thin and flimsy. Inside, a bottle of wine. Cheap wine. Mr. Peterson recognized the brand. It was the same one his students used to sneak into the back of the class. The accompanying note was childish. He crumpled it. The whole situation left a bitter taste in his mouth. From David, the student whose parents always complained about his low grades. The implications… he could feel the pulse in his temple.

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