offended - Story 95969 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was a scrap of paper, found crumpled under the seat of their car. Inside, a messy scrawl: “See a Broadway show.” "Learn to play the guitar." "Become a famous actress." The last item was crossed out. He had always dreamed of being an actor, but his partner, Daniel, had never mentioned it. He picked up the paper.

He crumbled the paper in his hands, throwing it away. He would never tell Daniel that he knew.

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