offended - Story 95119 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Your experience on the bench makes you the obvious choice to be a substitute hitter, Kevin," the baseball coach said, his tone one of forced enthusiasm. Kevin, who had dreamed of starting, felt his spirit deflate like a punctured tire. He had been working for years. It was as if all of it had been for nothing.

The air around him seemed to thicken. His fists clenched and unclenched. He had imagined himself on the field, batting in the winning run. Now, he was relegated to the bench, watching others play. The other players looked away, avoiding his gaze.

The silence grew heavy. He didn’t want to be *that* kind of player. The kind that was on the bench. He nodded, unable to speak, the disappointment so vast it threatened to consume him.

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