offended - Story 95890 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The diamond ring glinted under the sun as Mrs. Peterson shook hands with the new home buyers. Her stories of financial limitations seemed like a cruel jest to Maria. Maria knew Mrs. Peterson had made a small fortune from real estate, yet she had often made comments about her high home insurance bills and other petty expenses.

Her hands clenched. She had offered to bring Mrs. Peterson dinner several times, sensing her "loneliness". She now felt as though someone had taken advantage of her kindness.

Maria turned away, feeling a chill run down her spine. The new family and the sale sign outside Mrs. Peterson's home, seemed to mock her generosity.

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