offended - Story 95099 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence felt thick, heavy with unspoken expectations. “You haven’t found a job yet, have you, dear?” His father asked, his voice gentle.

He was searching, but the market was tough. He felt the familiar shame wash over him. His father’s words weren’t harsh, but they carried the weight of disappointment.

He nodded, unable to meet his father’s gaze. He felt a burning in his cheeks. He needed to get out, he needed to prove himself, not just to his parents, but to himself. He stood up abruptly, "I'm going for a walk."

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