offended - Story 95419 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Liam ran his thumb over the expensive leather. He had been fired that morning. Lost his job. His family had relied on his pay. The wallet, now this treasure, felt like a slap in the face.

His jaw tightened. He'd been honest, worked hard. He'd never cut corners. Now, he was unemployed, and here was a pile of money, easily obtained.

He kicked a small stone across the sidewalk. The injustice of it all tightened his chest.

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