offended - Story 95310 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon felt endless. He replayed the scene in his head. Seeing the salary document, seeing that the recent graduate, Chris, was earning more than him. He felt the familiar sting of betrayal.

He slammed his laptop shut, the sound echoing in the silent office. He needed to leave, to get away from these four walls, this constant reminder of the unfairness he had witnessed. He felt a deep, profound sense of discomfort.

He grabbed his coat and hurried to the elevator, his steps quick and urgent. He didn’t want to be in this place anymore.

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