offended - Story 95200 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He saw the name on the classroom door - Ms. Evans. The woman who used to be constantly on his case about his messy handwriting. John's face darkened. He knew she was the same one who would hold up his papers and make him feel small.

His son, Jake, skipped into the room, oblivious to his father's discomfort. The sight of Ms. Evans's familiar face triggered a flood of unpleasant memories. He felt a familiar resentment building.

He watched from the doorway, observing Ms. Evans's interactions with the class. A feeling of dread washed over him. He made a mental note to check Jake's homework every single day.

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