offended - Story 95137 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The small classroom seemed to shrink. Amelia felt pinned to her chair, unable to move, a butterfly impaled by a pin. Her stomach churned, a relentless, sickening wave. The professor's words, slicing through the air, felt like a personal attack.

She stared at her hands, twisting them nervously in her lap, trying to find some semblance of calm. The accusations felt like a physical blow. She wanted to disappear, to vanish from the room, to escape the shame that was threatening to consume her.

"I find it very hard to believe," she finally whispered, her voice barely audible, the words lost in the oppressive silence.

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