offended - Story 95107 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was a Monday morning, and the news had already broken the weekend. They wanted him to tutor the new hire. He was to teach someone his expertise. He felt a deep, slow burn beginning in his chest.

Throughout the day, he maintained a rigid posture, avoiding looking at the new recruit. The air conditioning in the office felt inadequate. His responses to questions were succinct. He showed them what they needed to see, and nothing more.

When the new person suggested a change to a process, he simply nodded, and then ignored the suggestion. He refused to offer any of the insider knowledge he had accumulated. His jaw ached from clenching.

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