offended - Story 95936 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The hydrangeas, plump and blue, sat on the counter, radiating an air of studied perfection. "Lovely," James scoffed, his voice laced with acid. He felt a wave of coldness wash over him.

He’d given her everything. Time, affection, his undivided attention. And what did he get in return? A mysterious bouquet, devoid of any personal touch. He felt a bitter taste in his mouth.

He ran a hand through his hair, a tic he often exhibited when stressed. The implication was clear. She didn’t even care enough to… what? He couldn’t even bring himself to finish the thought. The flowers felt like a mocking statement.

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