offended - Story 95303 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The meeting felt suffocating. Michael watched as Liam, the newer hire, confidently presented his quarterly report. His voice sounded casual, almost dismissive, while highlighting a project Michael had worked on. Michael’s gaze flickered to Liam’s name tag. The little bastard.

He shifted uncomfortably in his chair, a prickle of heat crawling up his neck. The details of the presentation blurred, his mind stuck on the conversation he'd overheard yesterday: Liam and the boss chatting in the hallway. Something about Liam's salary. Something about a *premium* package.

A knot formed in his throat, making it difficult to swallow. He forced a smile, but it felt wooden, unnatural. He wanted to shout, to object, to expose the absurdity of the situation. But he remained silent.

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