offended - Story 95257 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The rejection letter had just arrived, again. This time, the journal editor had cited a competing article as “more relevant” and “already accepted for publication.” She clicked on the link, her heart sinking with each passing click. It was her article. It was her research, word for word. She slammed her fist against the desk, a wave of frustrated fury washing over her. She knew she shouldn’t, but she tore up the rejection letter and threw it into the trash.

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