offended - Story 95429 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Class of '09 - Lakeside High - Fifteen Year Reunion." The words blurred before David's eyes. He felt a sudden, inexplicable heat.

He ran his finger across the photograph, a vibrant collage of smiling faces. His smile felt tight, false. He remembered the constant put-downs, the exclusion.

He slammed his fist on the table, the force of his anger nearly shattering the glass. He would not give them the satisfaction. He wouldn't go, he muttered to himself, over and over.

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