offended - Story 95199 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Mr. Callahan?" Sarah’s voice cracked. Her son, Ethan, beamed up at the man. It was a punch to the gut. Mr. Callahan. The man who had once made her cry in class.

She feigned enthusiasm, shaking Mr. Callahan's hand with a forced smile. But inside, her stomach churned. She could feel the familiar weight of anxiety settling in her chest.

Later, she found herself obsessively checking the school website, looking for any information on Mr. Callahan’s teaching style, anything to prepare Ethan. She found herself drafting then deleting multiple emails to the principal.

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