offended - Story 95276 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"You'll love it, Mark," his manager had chirped. "A fresh start!" Fresh start to what? He hadn't asked for a "fresh start." He'd been perfectly content in the IT department.

Now, he was in the mailroom. He hated the mailroom. He took a deep breath, trying to calm the sudden, involuntary tremors that shook his hands as he stamped the first package.

He didn't bother to unpack his things, just dumped his bag on the floor. He leaned against the wall, trying not to look at the other employees. He felt like he was being watched, judged.

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