offended - Story 95129 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He didn't bother to hide his annoyance. "Unbelievable," Thomas muttered under his breath, his voice barely audible. He was supposed to receive the award for his life's work. It was the crowning achievement of his career, a recognition of his decades-long dedication.

He looked at the people around him, a mixture of families and lone travelers. He felt a deep sense of separation, a feeling of being utterly alone in his frustration. His shoulders slumped.

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