offended - Story 95237 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The notification popped up on her phone at school. A classmate had sent her a link to a website with her name in the title. She excused herself from class and found an empty bathroom stall. Her heart began to pound a frantic tattoo against her ribs. She was mortified.

She held her breath as she opened the link. It was her diary. The digital equivalent of a public shaming. She wanted to disappear, to dissolve into the porcelain tiles surrounding her. Tears pricked at her eyes, and she quickly fumbled with the clasp of the stall.

She felt a wave of nausea. The bathroom air, usually stale, now felt thick with the weight of her embarrassment. She locked herself in the stall.

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