offended - Story 95191 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The PTA meeting buzzed with the usual chatter, but Sarah stood rigid, a polite smile plastered on her face. Then, Mrs. Gable's name was mentioned. Sarah's own fourth-grade teacher. A tight band clenched around her chest. The other parents were gushing about Mrs. Gable's "charm" and "patience," and Sarah's smile felt brittle.

A hand shot up, and the mother of a freckled boy asked if Mrs. Gable had always been this… vivacious. Sarah's knuckles turned white as she squeezed the strap of her purse.

"Oh, yes," another parent chimed in, "She’s been a staple in the district for ages!" Sarah abruptly excused herself, muttering something about needing air, and fled the room. The taste of stale coffee lingered in her mouth, a bitter reminder of everything.

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