offended - Story 95514 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The announcement came just as Emily was about to celebrate. She’d poured her heart into the tryouts, battling her nerves, pushing her limits. The coach praised her, gave her hope, only to then name her as not part of the team.

A wave of nausea washed over her. Her hands trembled as she forced a smile, a grotesque caricature of happiness. She felt her face flush, heat spreading down her neck.

She busied herself with repacking her bag, her motions stiff and mechanical. The celebratory mood that had filled the air moments before now seemed cruel, mocking her with its joy. She felt a profound loneliness, a desolate landscape opening up inside 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