offended - Story 95416 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the money. He knew the name on the driver's license inside the wallet. A prominent local politician. He felt a slow burn start in his belly. He was working three jobs, struggling to provide for his family.

He had voted for this man. Believed in his promises. He felt his face flush. He had to keep this going, had to keep scraping by.

His hands shook as he closed the wallet, and started to walk home. He began to imagine the things he could afford, the freedom. But he knew, in the core of his bones, that he could not.

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