offended - Story 95978 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sun was hot, but the air around Edgar turned frigid. It was Mrs. Gable again, the bane of his existence, wanting to establish a garden in his backyard.

Edgar's hands shook slightly as he set down his iced tea. The idea of her grubby hands touching his grass filled him with an inexplicable disgust. His stomach twisted. He tried to speak but found his voice caught in his throat.

"I think I need some time to think," he finally managed, his voice barely a whisper. He felt the familiar pressure of tears behind his eyes.

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