offended - Story 95254 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The magazine cover stared back at him, the picture of his artwork, his words, plastered across it. But the byline… it was not his. He was supposed to be the "rising star," the one to break through. A wave of heat flushed his face, and he gripped the magazine so hard his knuckles turned white. He wanted to scream. Instead, he forced a tight smile for the cashier, paid for the publication, and then walked quickly into the nearest alley.

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