offended - Story 95868 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The oversized, foam-rubber hand was absurd. A "number one" hand, the kind you'd see at a sporting event. From Kevin, the boy who struggled in the class. Now this…she could not believe it. She felt a sudden urge to laugh, but she managed to suppress it. The words of the note felt completely empty. She could barely read the words. She dropped the hand to the ground. She turned away, but not before noticing the small, smug smile on her face.

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