offended - Story 95268 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He'd assumed he was in. He’d trained rigorously for the swimming team, enduring the grueling practices, the icy water, the constant push. Every muscle ached, and his lungs burned with the effort. And now, this. The roster posted on the pool wall. His name was nowhere to be found. A wave of bitterness washed over him. He felt as though someone had punched him in the gut. He could taste the chlorine, bitter and metallic, and he wanted nothing more than to destroy something.

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