offended - Story 95426 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He held the invitation at arm's length, as if it were contaminated. "Riverwood High – Class of '89: Thirty Year Reunion." Robert let out a frustrated sigh.

His palms itched. He felt the familiar weight of old resentments settle upon him. He'd never fit in. He'd been the outsider, the one they laughed at. Now, after everything he had become...

He crumpled the invitation in his fist, crushing it. Then, he stormed out of the room, slamming the door behind him. The sound echoed through the empty house.

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