offended - Story 95195 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Ms. Abernathy," the principal said, gesturing towards a woman with a kind smile. "She'll be your daughter's sixth-grade teacher, Emily!" As the woman extended a hand, Emily stood frozen.

Ms. Abernathy. The name clawed its way out of the recesses of her memory. The teacher who had called her "unmotivated" and "easily distracted." The woman whose gaze made her feel small and inadequate. Emily’s throat closed up, and it was a struggle to force a smile.

The other parents were already showering Ms. Abernathy with praise. Emily found herself backing away, needing to escape. She nearly tripped over a stray backpack. The celebratory mood of the gathering soured for her.

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