offended - Story 95670 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the silence was almost unbearable. Alex felt his jaw clench. Sarah had been relentlessly criticizing his presentation all week. He'd worked hard on it, and now he was stuck with her.

He watched her carefully, noting her fidgeting. He wanted to say something, anything. But the words wouldn't come.

The elevator remained motionless. Sarah let out a small, nervous laugh. He turned his back to her, looking toward the control panel, their shared predicament a bitter metaphor for their working relationship.

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