offended - Story 95935 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The tulips, a vibrant mix of colors, were a jarring distraction from the quiet of her apartment. Sarah stared at them, a cold dread washing over her. She knew, with a certainty that settled in the pit of her stomach, that the sender was someone she didn't want to hear from.

She sat on the sofa, her posture rigid, her gaze fixed on the flowers as if they were a threat. She felt a prickling sensation behind her eyes, the familiar sting of impending tears. Why couldn't they just leave her alone?

"Just… go away," she whispered, her voice cracking. She had to compose herself. She felt a strange heat spreading in her cheeks. It would be easier to just ignore them, right?

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