offended - Story 95646 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news felt like a physical blow. She sat at her desk, staring at the screen, and the world seemed to tilt. The carefully constructed facade of professionalism she had maintained for years felt fragile, flimsy.

Her throat tightened, and she found it hard to breathe. The air felt stale, trapped. She got up, went to the window, and yanked it open, letting the cold air rush in. She needed to feel something other than this emptiness.

She thought about quitting. Today. Right now. But then a different thought came to her. She would stay, but not for them. She would stay to protect the company.

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