offended - Story 95413 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Well, well, well," Elara muttered, her fingers tracing the embossed initials on the wallet. It was a designer brand, the kind she could never afford. Inside, enough cash to pay her rent for six months. Six months!

The blood pounded in her ears. Elara had just been denied a loan, told she wasn’t “financially stable.” The sting of the rejection was still raw.

She folded her arms. She looked at her reflection in the bus shelter window. Her cheap, worn clothes. The way her hair always seemed to fall flat. A wave of bitterness washed over her.

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